Shaun White
I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.Collection: Amazing
Surfers have the most attitude.Collection: Attitude
I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.Collection: Sports
I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.Collection: Sports
You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.Collection: Great
I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.Collection: Hope
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.Collection: Sports
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.'Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Travel
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.
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.
Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.
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.
There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.
I was a monster, a problem child.
Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.
I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.
Cement doesn't give as much as snow.
You have to be prepared to take a spill.
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.
I am pretty bow-legged. It's annoying.
When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.
I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.
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.
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.
Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.
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'd love to compete in the Summer Olympics.
I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.
I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.
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.
I've had dreams about tricks.
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.
I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.
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.
Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.
The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.
I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.
It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.
I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.
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 reached my goal with snowboarding.
Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.
I think guitar is the best thing in the world.
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.
I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.
I play games.
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.
I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.
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.