Shaun White Quotes

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

Everywhere I look, someone is telling me, 'You're not good enough,' or, 'You can't do this or that.' You can only hear that so many times before enough is enough.

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

I'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

I'm so used to naysayers.

I just assume a lot of people hate me. You just have to suck it up.

'They' are the people that don't believe in you, that say that you won't succeed. We stay away from 'They.'

To the outside world, I was pretty bad at everything my whole life. People didn't credit me for my musicianship.

There's gonna be stretches where I don't play as well. People are gonna be talking bad about me and not always on my side and cheering me on.

I've been having people doubt me all my life.

Some people will be quite happy you have failed and will find a way to tell you so directly and indirectly. Yep, that is life. Do not let their insecurities impact you.

So many people were ready to write me off as being washed up at 20, I started to believe all that negative stuff myself.

I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."

The only people who try to tell you that you can’t do something, are the people who have failed

I thought about all the people that told me I couldn't do it and told me I couldn't get there.

I know what it's like to be told by your teacher that you'll never amount to anything.

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.