Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Shaun White
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I like to stay in the moment.
I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever.
I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.
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.
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 take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.
I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.
It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.
Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.
There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.
I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.
The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.
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.
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.
The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.
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've had dreams about tricks.
Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.
I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.
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.
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.
I've got to stand up for the sport.
Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.
I think guitar is the best thing in the world.
Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.
Surfers have the most attitude.
Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.
I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.
Trick names are so ridiculous!
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.
You have to be prepared to take a spill.
I am pretty bow-legged. It's annoying.
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 wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.
Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.
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 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.
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 was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.
I'd love to compete in the Summer Olympics.
I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.
If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.
I play games.
I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.
Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.
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.
Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything.
I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.
I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.
What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.
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!'
I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.
Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.
Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.
I've reached my goal with snowboarding.
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.
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.
Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.
I was a monster, a problem child.
I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.
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