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" I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably. "
Shaun White
I Can
Stairs
Them
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" When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.' "
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" Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy. "
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" 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. "
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" I've just had this fight since I can't even remember. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" My dad, he's the rocker. "
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" 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. "
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Me
" 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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" I don't know where my first gold medal is. "
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Gold
" I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11. "
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Out
Knocked
Skateboarder
" 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 want to perform well. "
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Perform
Well
Want
" I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been. "
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Think
More
" I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me. "
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Burden
Beast
" 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. "
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" Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest. "
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" 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. "
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Heavy
Happens
Turn
" 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
" 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
" I was a monster, a problem child. "
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Problem
Monster
Child
" 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. "
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Long Time
" Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now. "
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" 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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Funny
Friend
" I'd love to compete in the Summer Olympics. "
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Olympics
Compete
Summer
" I play games. "
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Games
Play
" 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. "
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Problems
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" I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing. "
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