Shaun White Quotes
Top 91 wise famous quotes and sayings by Shaun White
Shaun White Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.
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.
You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.
The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That's cool if you're a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person.
I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.
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.
The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.
I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.
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.'
Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.
Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.
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.
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.
I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.
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.
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.
It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.
There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.
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!'
My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.