Quotes from Shaun White

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

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.

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 don't know where my first gold medal is.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

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

Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

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.

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'm just having fun.

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

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

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.

Even at summer time, I'm still jacket shopping. I've always found that if you find a really nice leather jacket you kind of just go with it because they're timeless.

I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.

I couldn't do my homework if my room wasn't clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.

Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything.

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.

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.'

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

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