Quotes from Shaun White

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.

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.

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 think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.

Cement doesn't give as much as snow.

I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.

I'd love to compete in the Summer Olympics.

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.

I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.

I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.

Trick names are so ridiculous!

I've had dreams about tricks.

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.

There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.

I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.

When kids come up to me and say. 'I want to be like you,' it fires me up. It's pretty cool.

I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever.

I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.

I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.