Shaun White Quotes

I couldn't do my homework if my room wasn't clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.

I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.

A weird thing happens when you're taken out of your normal clothing and put into USA gear.

Now that I have the knowledge and I can speak to programmers better and I understand a lot more about what's possible and what's not possible, this will all help with the next game.

I want to perform well.

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.

I've reached my goal with snowboarding.

I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.

Ask anyone who knows me - I am constantly moving things around in my place.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.

I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.

When kids come up to me and say. 'I want to be like you,' it fires me up. It's pretty cool.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

You're either down or you're up.

I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.

It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.

I just want to be the guy that inspires other kids to come do what I'm doing.

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.

Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world!

I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

I have the most fun snowboarding when it's just me and my brother.

Skateboarding is a way to let your body control the mind.

The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That's cool if you're a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

If you're going off a 90-foot jump, you can't say: 'Oh, I don't want to do this now.' You're going no matter what.

When the pressure's on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.

It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

I like to stay in the moment.

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm asking myself "Do I pack it? It could be cold." I'm inventing scenarios where I could wear it.

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.