Shaun White Quotes

I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.

I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.

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

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything.

I guess I'm an athlete now. I gotta start going to the gym.

I like that you can easily flip the sheets over and have a different feel or vibe in your room. You don't have to go get a whole brand-new set of sheets.

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

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.

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.

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.

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.

On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.

There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

I've got to stand up for the sport.

I am pretty bow-legged. It's annoying.

Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.

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.

Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

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

Trick names are so ridiculous!

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

I want to perform well.

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

I was a monster, a problem child.

I'd like to date, but I'm not really in a position to meet girls.

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

I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever.

United [Airlines] sucks, man. I've got like a million miles and they never bump me to first class because they think I'm just a kid and give the seat to some schmoozy guy in a business suit.

I like to stay in the moment.

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

You're either down or you're up.

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.

Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.

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

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

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

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

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.

I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.

It's tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality - who hasn't seen you on TV and is like, 'Hey!'