Top 100 Quotes About Shaun White
#1. I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.
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#2. When the pressure's on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.
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#3. When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'
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#4. 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.
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#5. Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.
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#6. 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!'
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#8. There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.
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#9. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.
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#14. I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.
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#16. 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.
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#17. You have to be prepared to take a spill.
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#18. I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.
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#19. 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.
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#20. Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.
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#21. I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.
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#22. I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.
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#23. United [Airlines] sucks, man. I've got like a million miles and they never bump me to first class because they think I'm just a kid and give the seat to some schmoozy guy in a business suit.
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#24. I knew there was a certain level that I could get to within the sporting world. But as I continued with my career, not only did I grow, but the sport grew. All of a sudden, all of these doors opened to me. It's been amazing. I guess I was born at the right time.
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#25. I'd love to compete in the Summer Olympics.
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#26. It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.
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#27. 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.
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#29. There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.
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#30. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#37. If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.
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#38. I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.
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#41. 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.
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#43. The Olympics is really awesome, but for some snowboarders, it's not the biggest thing in the world.
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#44. When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.
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#45. I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.
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#46. I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever.
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#47. I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.
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#48. When kids come up to me and say. 'I want to be like you,' it fires me up. It's pretty cool.
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#49. I guess I'm an athlete now. I gotta start going to the gym.
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#51. Even at summer time, I'm still jacket shopping. I've always found that if you find a really nice leather jacket you kind of just go with it because they're timeless.
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#52. I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.
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#53. 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.
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#54. You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.
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#55. I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.
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#56. Skateboarding is a way to let your body control the mind.
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#57. 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.
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#58. I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.
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#59. I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.
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#60. I have the most fun snowboarding when it's just me and my brother.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.
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#63. You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.
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#64. I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.
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#65. Ask anyone who knows me - I am constantly moving things around in my place.
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#67. It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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.
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#70. I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been.
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#71. I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.
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#72. I've reached my goal with snowboarding.
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#73. Now that I have the knowledge and I can speak to programmers better and I understand a lot more about what's possible and what's not possible, this will all help with the next game,
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#74. I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm asking myself "Do I pack it? It could be cold." I'm inventing scenarios where I could wear it.
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#75. The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.
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#76. I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.
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#77. I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.
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#78. I've just had this fight since I can't even remember.
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#79. Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.
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#80. I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.
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#81. 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.
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#83. 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.
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#85. 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.
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#86. 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.
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#87. I don't know where my first gold medal is.
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#88. 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.'
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#89. I just want to be the guy that inspires other kids to come do what I'm doing.
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#90. A weird thing happens when you're taken out of your normal clothing and put into USA gear.
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#91. Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.
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#94. It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.
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#95. Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything.
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#96. I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.
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#97. I think guitar is the best thing in the world.
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#98. I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.
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#99. 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.
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#100. I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.
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