Top 73 Quotes & Sayings by Hannah Teter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Hannah Teter.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Hannah Teter

Hannah Teter is an American snowboarder. She is an Olympic champion, having won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy and silver at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. She also won bronze at the 2005 FIS World Championships at Whistler, British Columbia, and has six World Cup victories in her career. In January 2010, Teter was named to the US Team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She won the silver medal in women's halfpipe at the Vancouver Games. Teter came in fourth at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

I love stir-fries, quinoa, tofu, and tempeh!
I'm OK with people being naked. There shouldn't be a huge deal made about it.
I'm motivated to keep going to keep making a difference in people's lives. — © Hannah Teter
I'm motivated to keep going to keep making a difference in people's lives.
I'm into fashion and designing clothes and stuff.
Guys with bigger boobs than I have walk around, and they're fine. If women were to do that, they could go to jail. That's totally wrong.
When you surround yourself with nature, it's really powerful.
I use products with coconut oil in them all over my skin.
Surfing waves of water or clouds of powder snow is the best feeling on earth.
I have been so inspired by the Special Olympics athletes that I have been so fortunate to meet, and I am excited to continue my involvement in the Special Olympics Movement.
I hope that as a professional snowboarder, Olympian, and now, a Global Ambassador for Special Olympics, I will be able to change perceptions about people with intellectual disabilities.
That's what snowboarders do: we break rules.
Action sports is just in a new era: thinking outside the box, being creative, and inventing new things. I just think people dig that. It's a new way of being an athlete.
Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language. — © Hannah Teter
Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language.
It was a no-brainer to get the Unified snowboarding race into X Games.
I've always felt really lucky and really privileged with my life, how I grew up, and the opportunities I've had.
I feel like my role is to be one of those voices who reaches the youth.
Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.
I come from a close-knit family, and I have four older brothers that have inspired me in so many ways.
I'm trying to do more inverts and corked-out rotations that you don't see at the girls' level. I want to be more creative.
My plant-based diet has opened up more doors to being an athlete. It's a whole other level that I'm elevating to.
I use Jane Iredale SPF foundation and bronzer, along with the brand's brushes. Her stuff keeps my face all glowy and looking good for interviews and moments when I want to feel like a million bucks.
The sun rays are more powerful at high altitudes and the snow bounces the rays right back up at you. Shiseido sun care products are epic for protecting me and not irritating my skin.
The earth is one big interconnected entity. If you hurt a piece, you hurt the whole. If you hurt the people, you hurt the environment.
Funny how one halfpipe run can change your life.
Usually, boycotts sometimes don't really accomplish anything besides the fact that you show you that don't agree with what's going on.
The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.
Young Living Peace & Calming Essential Oil is one of my favorite oil blends. I have many of them but choose this one for my neck and wrists most often.
Every human life is worth so much.
Maple syrup makes you strong!
You want everybody to see snowboarding as it should be, looking phenomenal with everybody doing what they know how to do.
I've been to three Olympics, and they're cool and everything, but I feel like people just aren't grateful for what we have and the opportunities we have.
Once I get my mind set on something, I want to see it succeed at the highest level.
My goal from the beginning was, if I ever hit it it big, I would give back. And that continues to be my goal moving forward.
I snowboard because I love it. It's just a cool way to be out there and doing something different instead of going to college.
I want to make money for third-world-country kids, and I need to be smart about how to do it.
When I see somebody fall in practice or get hurt, it almost makes me want to cry.
Putin is very - not the smartest guy in the world.
I don't overcook, because you lose what's good in the food. — © Hannah Teter
I don't overcook, because you lose what's good in the food.
I decided I want to represent the U.S. and show what snowboarding's all about.
I'm moving into a yurt in the woods near my parents' home in Vermont.
When I discovered Special Olympics and saw how it integrates these athletes into programs that change the whole way they see themselves and how they perform, it blew my mind. I wanted to be involved.
When the Olympics comes around, it seems like every country is against each other, but we're all buddies out here. It's about giving feedback to fellow riders and letting the riders feed off each other.
The Unified races are so much fun and take you back to the roots of why you started snowboarding. It makes you feel grateful for all that you have.
You don't really get the full grasp of something until you see it for yourself.
I made a pact with myself when I was younger that if were to ever grow up to be someone, I would be someone who would make a difference, instead of being just another person on the planet who doesn't look into anything.
Americans are pretty next level with snowboarding. We have the best training facilities, the best coaches that push us to the next level.
Clean water is such a treasure that we take for granted in America.
Growing up with four older brothers, we were into everything! They started snowboarding when I was just a tiny button, and I loved watching them shredding in the backyard. After seeing them compete in a few contests, it was all over. I idolized the sport from day one.
I grew up in Vermont, so we didn't really have a TV, growing up, or a football team. — © Hannah Teter
I grew up in Vermont, so we didn't really have a TV, growing up, or a football team.
Sometimes, you need to revamp yourself over the winter, participate in things that make you appreciate what you have.
I didn't know football was so big. Obviously, it's huge in the United States.
I've been striving for attention my whole life. Now I have it.
I love the whole layout of Vancouver and the super-friendly people who live there.
I'd just like to see athletes awake. And aware. There's so much going on and so much to know... We stay in our little boxes and don't think much about the outside world.
I've been blessed to have enough to buy organic and have a house in Tahoe.
I think people forget that it doesn't take a big donation to help someone, just a lot of little donations.
Riding is my passion, but a very close second is sun, sand, and surf.
I love riding halfpipe. This is an amazing job to have.
Bodies are beautiful and should be appreciated.
I've always wanted to make an impact.
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