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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.

Shaun White

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Shaun White
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: September 3
Actor
Skateboarder
Snowboarder
San Diego
California
Shaun Roger White
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On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.
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I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.
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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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Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.
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I am pretty bow-legged. It's annoying.
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You have to be prepared to take a spill.
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Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.
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I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.
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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 trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.
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I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.
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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 have the most fun snowboarding when it's just me and my brother.
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I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.
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I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.
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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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It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.
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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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I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.
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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.
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