Quotes from 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.

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

I've had dreams about tricks.

Surfers have the most attitude.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

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.

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.

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

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.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

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 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.

My dad, he's the rocker.

Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.

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 know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

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.

I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

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 wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.

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