Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Chloe Kim - Page 2

I don't like doing the same runs. I like to mix it up a lot.

Snowboarding is a huge part of my life, but I also feel like it's important to have a plan B or a back-up plan for after my career because I can't snowboard for my whole life competitively.

Before I drop in, I tend to knock on my snowboard. You know how when you jinx yourself, they're like, 'Knock on wood.' My snowboard's wood, so in case I jinxed myself sometime in the past, I just knock on my board. It just makes me feel a lot more comfortable.

It's super cool - I have this link to Korea, and with the Olympics, I have this opportunity to represent the U.S., Korea, and my family.

I want to go to college.

When I first started snowboarding, my dad pretty much dragged me into it. I wasn't old enough to be like, 'Oh, I wanna snowboard!' you know?

I feel like I have this unique opportunity to represent both Korea and the U.S.

If you give me fro-yo without mangoes, you're dead to me. If you say that Hawaiian pizza is gross, we're done.

I just want to be that young girl from L.A. who snowboards and gets her nails done.

I'm always trying to respond to my Instagram direct messages, even if they're a little weird. I'll have a Q&A on Snapchat and talk to everyone.

I didn't get a normal school life, and my sisters have told me so many fun stories about college, so I'm just so excited.

My mom wouldn't let me dye my hair for the longest time.

My father didn't want to ski alone, so he took me up to the mountains in order to basically bribe my mom to come with him.

I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.

I was really excited to land my first 1080. But I was surprised that it came a lot easier than I thought it would.

I love working with sponsors.

I think the goal is always to be both. I put more effort into the technical side of my riding, but style is very important nowadays.

I was, like, talking to these kids, and I look up, and there was, like, 25 cameras around me. And I ran. I ran away. I, like, straight up ran away, and I was so scared, and then, like, it happened, and after I was done, it kinda sunk in.

I think the cool thing about snowboarding is that everyone has their own style.

I'm, like, finishing up high school. I don't know how you can learn anything from me because I'm still, like, a teenager. I don't know what I'm doing with my life.

I moved to Switzerland when I was 8, and during our breaks, we'd go to snowboard, and he'd take me to the mountains; we'd take a train. It was kind of crazy, you know. When I think about it, I wake up at 4, take a train to the mountains, sleep in the train and then go snowboard, and then come back. It was quite a mission.

If my hands get cold, I'll go inside to warm them up and basically never come back out. I'm a little wimp.

To me, the Olympics are very important, obviously, but it's not something that I'm gonna change everything for.

I genuinely only want to work with people that I agree with on certain things. There were many sponsors I didn't want to work with because I didn't agree with their messages that they wanted to use me to convey.

I don't feel that much fear.

When I was younger, me and my dad worked really hard. We did it the hard way.

I have two aunts and three cousins in Korea as well.

Hopefully I get to do more than one Olympics in my lifetime.

I'm a dragon.

I'm always working hard.

I was very shy. It was kind of scary to meet new people.

I try not to feel pressure, because I feel like it kind of throws you off. I always try to focus on myself. But it does kind of creep into the back of my mind.

I love competing so much.

Four is actually my lucky number.

People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

Honestly, I didn't like snowboarding when I was a little girl. As I got older, it became something I did with my dad. When I was 10, I knew I was good for my age, but I never felt that I was prodigy-level or anything like that.

I just go into a contest looking to put down a good run. As long as I feel like I've done what I came to do, and I'm happy with my riding, where I end up doesn't matter that much to me.

I always have fun on the mountain, so it's always nice to go back out there and do what I love.