Top 100 Shaun White Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.”

— Shaun White

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

— Shaun White

3. “I like to stay in the moment.”

— Shaun White

4. “There’s always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.”

— Shaun White

5. “I didn’t set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.”

— Shaun White

6. “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.”

— Shaun White

7. “Skateboarding is a way to let your body control the mind.”

— Shaun White

8. “I want to perform well.”

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9. “Boards and myself get along somehow.”

— Shaun White

10. “I was told from a very young age that I wasn’t gonna be anything. That I wasn’t gonna amount to a single thing.”

— Shaun White

11. “I just want to be the guy that inspires other kids to come do what I’m doing.”

— Shaun White

12. “I’m really disappointed at every event if I don’t do less than what I wanted to do.”

— Shaun White

13. “You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that’s a great feeling.”

— Shaun White

14. “There are plenty of skills I’ve learned from playing video games. It’s more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you’re using your brain.”

— Shaun White

15. “Having all eyes on me at all times is hard to deal with, but it’s great. It feels like you’ve already accomplished something. It’s already predetermined that you’re going to do well.”

— Shaun White

16. “I can’t stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.”

— Shaun White

17. “I am pretty bow-legged. It’s annoying.”

— Shaun White

18. “I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.”

— Shaun White

19. “What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It’s about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It’s about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it’s about being creative.”

— Shaun White

20. “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.”

— Shaun White

21. “When the pressure’s on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.”

— Shaun White

22. “Surfers have the most attitude.”

— Shaun White

23. “Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything.”

— Shaun White

24. “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.’”

— Shaun White

25. “I’ve always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.”

— Shaun White

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

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

— Shaun White

28. “I’m just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.”

— Shaun White

29. “The Olympics is really awesome, but for some snowboarders, it’s not the biggest thing in the world.”

— Shaun White

30. “Cement doesn’t give as much as snow.”

— Shaun White

31. “I was a monster, a problem child.”

— Shaun White

32. “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.”

— Shaun White

33. “You have to be prepared to take a spill.”

— Shaun White

34. “I’d love to compete in the Summer Olympics.”

— Shaun White

35. “It’s exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.”

— Shaun White

36. “I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.”

— Shaun White

37. “Ask anyone who knows me – I am constantly moving things around in my place.”

— Shaun White

38. “You’re either down or you’re up.”

— Shaun White

39. “I’ve reached my goal with snowboarding.”

— Shaun White

40. “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.”

— Shaun White

41. “On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I’ve been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.”

— Shaun White

42. “I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.”

— Shaun White

43. “There’s not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.”

— Shaun White

44. “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.”

— Shaun White

45. “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.”

— Shaun White

46. “Every time I’ve had a bad performance at an event, I’ve come back more determined and focused.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “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.”

— Shaun White

49. “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.”

— Shaun White

50. “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.”

— Shaun White