Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.
— Shaun White
When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'
I've got to stand up for the sport.
If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.
I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.
I play games.
I think guitar is the best thing in the world.
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'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.
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.
I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.
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 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.
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'd love to compete in the Summer Olympics.
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.
I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.
I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.
Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.
When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.
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.
I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.
Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.
I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.
The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.
I love acting.
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.
Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.
I've had dreams about tricks.
I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.
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 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 think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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've reached my goal with snowboarding.
It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.
Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.
Surfers have the most attitude.
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.
I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.
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 usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.
Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.
I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.
