Quotes By Shaun White

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.

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.

I want to perform well.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

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

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

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.

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

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 always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

I play games.

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.

I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.

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.

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

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

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.