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

Shaun White

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Shaun White
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: September 3
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San Diego
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A weird thing happens when you're taken out of your normal clothing and put into USA gear.
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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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When kids come up to me and say. 'I want to be like you,' it fires me up. It's pretty cool.
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If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.
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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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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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The Olympics is really awesome, but for some snowboarders, it's not the biggest thing in the world.
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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 was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.
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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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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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I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.
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I've got to stand up for the sport.
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Now that I have the knowledge and I can speak to programmers better and I understand a lot more about what's possible and what's not possible, this will all help with the next game.
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