Shaun White

Shaun White

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As an American snowboarder and skateboarder (b. 1986), Shaun White contributed not just to their field but to the broader conversation about what it means to live well. Shaun White's observations on Dad are as sharp as their thoughts on Sports, revealing genuine breadth of mind. 30 of Shaun White's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Dad, Sports, Music, Family, and Cool. Readers often gravitate to this one: "Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now."

“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

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“I've had dreams about tricks.”

— Shaun White

Dreams

“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

Family

“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.”

— Shaun White

Dad

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

— Shaun White

Music

“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

Cool

“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

Beauty

“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

Cool

“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

Dad

“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

Funny

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

— Shaun White

Best

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

— Shaun White

Sports

“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.”

— Shaun White

Cool

“Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.”

— Shaun White

Music

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

— Shaun White

Food

“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

Family

“My dad, he's the rocker.”

— Shaun White

Dad

“Surfers have the most attitude.”

— Shaun White

Attitude

“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

Money

“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

Home

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

— Shaun White

Sports