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" I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me. "
Shaun White
Me
Burden
Beast
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" You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes. "
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" 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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" I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo. "
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" Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy. "
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Generally
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" I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12. "
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Average
Japan
" 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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Love
Me
" 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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I Am
Clean
" 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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Wave
" Cement doesn't give as much as snow. "
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Snow
Give
" I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life. "
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Great
Me
Mothers
" I'm just having fun. "
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Having
Fun
Just
" I am pretty bow-legged. It's annoying. "
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Am
Annoying
I Am
" I was a monster, a problem child. "
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Problem
Monster
Child
" 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
" It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing. "
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Hard
Just
" When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up. "
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Talking
Strange
Grow Up
" When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.' "
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Guy
Everyone
Skating
" I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing. "
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Practicing
Keep
Going
" I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple. "
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Skin
Nice
Keep
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Ask anyone who knows me - I am constantly moving things around in my place. "
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Ask
Me
Moving
" Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo. "
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Games
Always
New
" 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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Brother
Snow
Family
" 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. "
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Matter
Individual
American
" I'd like to date, but I'm not really in a position to meet girls. "
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Date
Position