Quotes By Shaun White

My dad, he's the rocker.

I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.

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!

I've just had this fight since I can't even remember.

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.

There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.

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

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

I want to perform well.

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.

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.

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

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.

Cement doesn't give as much as snow.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.'

I play games.

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.

I'm just having fun.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

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.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

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've had dreams about tricks.

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.