Shaun White Quotes

• Surfers have the most attitude.

  Shaun White

• 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

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

  Shaun White

• 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

• 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

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

  Shaun White

• My dad, he’s the rocker.

  Shaun White

• 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.

  Shaun White

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

  Shaun White

• 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

• It’s hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

  Shaun White

• 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.

  Shaun White

• It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.

  Shaun White

• 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.

  Shaun White

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

  Shaun White

• 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.

  Shaun White

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I’ve reached my goal with snowboarding.

  Shaun White

Shaun White (98)

Birth:	3rd September, 1986
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Skateboarder, Snowboarder

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