Shaun White famous quotes

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.
-- Shaun White

#Feet #People #Soul

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

#Motivational #Mean #Athlete

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.
-- Shaun White

#Winter #Skateboarding #Done

I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.
-- Shaun White

#Fans #Bigs

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

#Wind #Games #Feet

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

#Sports #Years #Goal

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.
-- Shaun White

#Sports #Fun #Thinking

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

#Song #Thinking #Inspired

I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.
-- Shaun White

#Chinese #Stuff #Chinese Food

I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.
-- Shaun White

#Logos #Able #Brands

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

#Air #Mind #Skateboarding

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

#Honor #Proud #Olympics

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

#Work Out #Sticks #Nails

Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.
-- Shaun White

#Personality #Actors #Tvs

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'
-- Shaun White

#Guy #Skating

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

#Mom #Dad #Cities

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

#Work Out #Active

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

#Cutting #Hair #Half

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.
-- Shaun White

#Land #Legs #Break

On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.
-- Shaun White

#Sports #Years #Snowboarding

I like to stay in the moment.
-- Shaun White

#Moments

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

#Eye #Like You #Accomplished

I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.
-- Shaun White

#Stairs #Walking

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.
-- Shaun White

#Feelings #Next #Succeed

I've got to stand up for the sport.
-- Shaun White

#Sports

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.
-- Shaun White

#Seven

Trick names are so ridiculous!
-- Shaun White

#Names #Ridiculous #Tricks

Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.
-- Shaun White

#Approval #Deals

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

#Cereal #Snowboarding #Long

I am pretty bow-legged. It's annoying.
-- Shaun White

#Bows #Annoying #I Am Pretty

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.
-- Shaun White

#Land #Beast #Burden

If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.
-- Shaun White

#Thinking #Stuff #Sponsors

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

#Girl #Personality #Hey

It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.
-- Shaun White

#Size #Boards #Tiny

I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.
-- Shaun White

#Relax #Advantage #Time To Relax

I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.
-- Shaun White

#Nice #Simple #Skins

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

#Peaceful #Stressed #Hawaii

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

#Crazy #Home #Japan

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.
-- Shaun White

#Privacy

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

#Brother #Fun #Snow

I've reached my goal with snowboarding.
-- Shaun White

#Snowboarding #Goal

Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.
-- Shaun White

#Kids #Games #Nintendo