Top 100 Shaun White Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Skateboarding is training, but I don’t think of it as training. It’s fun.”

— Shaun White

52. “When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.”

— Shaun White

53. “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

54. “I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.”

— Shaun White

55. “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.”

— Shaun White

56. “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.”

— Shaun White

57. “I think guitar is the best thing in the world.”

— Shaun White

58. “I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.”

— Shaun White

59. “It’s tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality – who hasn’t seen you on TV and is like, ‘Hey!’”

— Shaun White

60. “When kids come up to me and say. ‘I want to be like you,’ it fires me up. It’s pretty cool.”

— Shaun White

61. “I don’t know where my first gold medal is.”

— Shaun White

62. “I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.”

— Shaun White

63. “I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.”

— Shaun White

64. “I always tell people that our sports aren’t that dangerous.”

— Shaun White

65. “Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.”

— Shaun White

66. “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.”

— Shaun White

67. “I don’t have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I’m going to Hawaii and I’m asking myself “Do I pack it? It could be cold.” I’m inventing scenarios where I could wear it.”

— Shaun White

68. “Competition pushes me to improve. If I see someone do a big trick, I try it.”

— Shaun White

69. “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.”

— Shaun White

70. “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.”

— Shaun White

71. “I guess I’m an athlete now. I gotta start going to the gym.”

— Shaun White

72. “If you think I’ve got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.”

— Shaun White

73. “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.”

— Shaun White

74. “Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I’m far more open now.”

— Shaun White

75. “I’ve got to stand up for the sport.”

— Shaun White

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

— Shaun White

77. “My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We’ve all been through so much together.”

— Shaun White

78. “I’d like to date, but I’m not really in a position to meet girls.”

— Shaun White

79. “I don’t think the sport is any more dangerous than it’s ever been.”

— Shaun White

80. “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.”

— Shaun White

81. “I’ve always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.”

— Shaun White

82. “Generally, I’m a pretty mellow guy.”

— Shaun White

83. “I didn’t want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.”

— Shaun White

84. “You show up at the Olympics, and you’re no longer you; you’re an American Olympian. You’re part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn’t matter.”

— Shaun White

85. “I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game – you can’t fool kids.”

— Shaun White

86. “I wasn’t your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.”

— Shaun White

87. “I like that you can easily flip the sheets over and have a different feel or vibe in your room. You don’t have to go get a whole brand-new set of sheets.”

— Shaun White

88. “Usually the thing that signifies that I’m done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.”

— Shaun White

89. “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.”

— Shaun White

90. “The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That’s cool if you’re a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person.”

— Shaun White

91. “The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I’m so active I really don’t have to work out too often.”

— Shaun White

92. “I’ve had dreams about tricks.”

— Shaun White

93. “Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.”

— Shaun White

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

— Shaun White

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

— Shaun White

96. “I’m not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.”

— Shaun White

97. “I’d love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.”

— Shaun White

98. “I knew there was a certain level that I could get to within the sporting world. But as I continued with my career, not only did I grow, but the sport grew. All of a sudden, all of these doors opened to me. It’s been amazing. I guess I was born at the right time.”

— Shaun White

99. “I’m on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.”

— Shaun White

100. “It’s hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.”

— Shaun White