The Olympics is really awesome, but for some snowboarders, it's not the biggest thing in the world.

If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

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

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

You're either down or you're up.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

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