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" 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
Breaks
City
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" Trick names are so ridiculous! "
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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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" I like to stay in the moment. "
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" Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding. "
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" 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.' "
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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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" When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that. "
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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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" I'm just having fun. "
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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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" 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
" I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me. "
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" You have to be prepared to take a spill. "
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" 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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" Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval. "
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" It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing. "
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" I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board. "
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" If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down. "
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" I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime. "
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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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Great
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" I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever. "
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" 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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" I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids. "
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" 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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" 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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" I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life. "
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" 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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