Quotes from Hannah Teter

I love riding halfpipe. This is an amazing job to have.

I hope that as a professional snowboarder, Olympian, and now, a Global Ambassador for Special Olympics, I will be able to change perceptions about people with intellectual disabilities.

Bodies are beautiful and should be appreciated.

Usually, boycotts sometimes don't really accomplish anything besides the fact that you show you that don't agree with what's going on.

The sun rays are more powerful at high altitudes and the snow bounces the rays right back up at you. Shiseido sun care products are epic for protecting me and not irritating my skin.

The earth is one big interconnected entity. If you hurt a piece, you hurt the whole. If you hurt the people, you hurt the environment.

Riding is my passion, but a very close second is sun, sand, and surf.

Clean water is such a treasure that we take for granted in America.

Surfing waves of water or clouds of powder snow is the best feeling on earth.

Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.

I use products with coconut oil in them all over my skin.

When you surround yourself with nature, it's really powerful.

Maple syrup makes you strong!

When I see somebody fall in practice or get hurt, it almost makes me want to cry.

I'm into fashion and designing clothes and stuff.

I am a huge fan of quinoa, not only for its health benefits but because it tastes the best out of all the grains.

I've always felt really lucky and really privileged with my life, how I grew up, and the opportunities I've had.

When I discovered Special Olympics and saw how it integrates these athletes into programs that change the whole way they see themselves and how they perform, it blew my mind. I wanted to be involved.

Children International is bringing a lot of hope to families who start out with nothing. They have nothing. Then Children International comes in, puts them in school, gets them what they need.

The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.

Sometimes, you need to revamp yourself over the winter, participate in things that make you appreciate what you have.

I think people forget that it doesn't take a big donation to help someone, just a lot of little donations.

You don't really get the full grasp of something until you see it for yourself.

I'm moving into a yurt in the woods near my parents' home in Vermont.