“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.”
― Shaun White
“I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.”
― Shaun White
“Skateboarding is training, but I don’t think of it as training. It’s fun.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“I think guitar is the best thing in the world.”
― Shaun White
“You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that’s a great feeling.”
― Shaun White
“I can’t stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.”
― Shaun White
“There’s always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.”
― Shaun White
“You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“I’m not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.”
― Shaun White
“You have to be prepared to take a spill.”
― Shaun White
“I was a monster, a problem child.”
― Shaun White
“Usually the thing that signifies that I’m done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.”
― Shaun White
“Every time I’ve had a bad performance at an event, I’ve come back more determined and focused.”
― Shaun White
“My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We’ve all been through so much together.”
― Shaun White
“I’ve had dreams about tricks.”
― Shaun White
“I’ve always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.”
― Shaun White
“Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.”
― Shaun White
“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!’”
― Shaun White
“I’ve reached my goal with snowboarding.”
― Shaun White
“If you do a trick and it doesn’t work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, ‘OK, I’m cool, it’s all good.’”
― Shaun White
“I’m really disappointed at every event if I don’t do less than what I wanted to do.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“I’d love to compete in the Summer Olympics.”
― Shaun White
“I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“I’ve always wanted to land a 1080, it’s been a beast of a burden for me.”
― Shaun White
“There’s not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“Surfers have the most attitude.”
― Shaun White
“I love acting.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I’m so active I really don’t have to work out too often.”
― Shaun White
“It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.”
― Shaun White
“I wasn’t your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.”
― Shaun White
“Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I’m far more open now.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“I’m on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.”
― Shaun White
“I play games.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“If you think I’ve got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.”
― Shaun White
“I’ve got to stand up for the sport.”
― Shaun White
“When I’m on planes, I’d talk to people and I’d tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn’t. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They’re really like the X Games for the world!”
― Shaun White
“I’m proud of the U.S.A. We’ve done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.”
― Shaun White
“When I came back to skating, everyone was like ‘Oh you’re the snowboard guy.’”
― Shaun White
“I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game – you can’t fool kids.”
― Shaun White
“I didn’t want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.”
― Shaun White
“Generally, I’m a pretty mellow guy.”
― Shaun White
“I can’t really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.”
― Shaun White
“I don’t think the sport is any more dangerous than it’s ever been.”
― Shaun White
“I’m just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.”
― Shaun White
“I am pretty bow-legged. It’s annoying.”
― Shaun White
“I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.”
― Shaun White
“I don’t know where my first gold medal is.”
― Shaun White
“Boards and myself get along somehow.”
― Shaun White
“I’ve always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.”
― Shaun White
“I always tell people that our sports aren’t that dangerous.”
― Shaun White
“Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.”
― Shaun White
“I’ve just had this fight since I can’t even remember.”
― Shaun White
“I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.”
― Shaun White
“Ask anyone who knows me – I am constantly moving things around in my place.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“I couldn’t do my homework if my room wasn’t clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.”
― Shaun White
“I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.”
― Shaun White
“I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.”
― Shaun White
“When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.”
― Shaun White
“Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything.”
― Shaun White
“My dad, he’s the rocker.”
― Shaun White
“Cement doesn’t give as much as snow.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“Trick names are so ridiculous!”
― Shaun White
“Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.”
― Shaun White
“I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.”
― Shaun White
“My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.”
― Shaun White
“I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.”
― Shaun White
“It’s hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.”
― Shaun White
“I’d like to date, but I’m not really in a position to meet girls.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
“I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.”
― Shaun White
“You know the best thing about competition? There’s this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you’re so happy.”
― Shaun White
“I want to perform well.”
― Shaun White
“Having all eyes on me at all times is hard to deal with, but it’s great. It feels like you’ve already accomplished something. It’s already predetermined that you’re going to do well.”
― Shaun White
“I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don’t want to talk about it, ever.”
― Shaun White
“I’m just having fun.”
― Shaun White
“I like to stay in the moment.”
― Shaun White
“I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.”
― Shaun White
“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.”
― Shaun White
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