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" Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts. "
Shaun White
Buy
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" I've reached my goal with snowboarding. "
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Snowboarding
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" 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. "
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Strategy
Happy
" I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do. "
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Disappointed
Event
" I've had dreams about tricks. "
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Had
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" 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. "
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Said
Away
Wave
" Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused. "
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Performance
Back
" 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. "
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Me
" 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. "
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Great
Funny
Friend
" 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. "
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Flying
Wind
Game
" When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that. "
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Like
Endorsement
Deals
" When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.' "
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Guy
Everyone
Skating
" There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half. "
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Half
Hair
I Can
" I've got to stand up for the sport. "
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Got
Sport
Stand
" Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun. "
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Skateboarding
Training
Fun
" If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate. "
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Against
Go
Building
" I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff. "
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Away
Stay
Love
" 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. "
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Think
You
Feet
" Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding. "
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Start
Skateboarding
Done
" 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. "
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Now
I Am
Clean
" When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world! "
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Games
World
Tell
" 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
Brother
Snow
Family
" 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. "
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Want
You
Say
" Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now. "
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Far
Doing
Now
" I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11. "
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Out
Knocked
Skateboarder
" 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. "
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Work
Parents
Time
" 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!' "
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You
Tough
Girl
" I play games. "
Shaun White
Games
Play
" 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. "
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Me
Great
Like
" The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often. "
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Because
Out
Active
" I don't know where my first gold medal is. "
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Where
Gold Medal
Gold