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

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.

Shaun White

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

Shaun White

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

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

Shaun White

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

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

Shaun White

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

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

Shaun White

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

Shaun White

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

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

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

It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.

Shaun White

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

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

Shaun White

I love acting.

Shaun White

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

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

Shaun White

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

Shaun White

Surfers have the most attitude.

Shaun White

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

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

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

Shaun White

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

Shaun White

I play games.

Shaun White

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

Shaun White

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.

Shaun White

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

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

Shaun White

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

Shaun White

You have to be prepared to take a spill.

Shaun White

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

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.

Shaun White

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

Shaun White

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

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