Red Gerard Quotes

I didn't even think about snowboarding until after my accident.

I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

I snowboard because I love it. It's just a cool way to be out there and doing something different instead of going to college.

Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

I took my son to Thailand and really immersed myself in the stuff I wanted to learn and I wanted to improve on, and when I got a taste of that motivation and that inspiration as far as what I wanted to see my body do, I immediately was excited about it.

I'm never going to go and test myself on Everest, but I sort of understand the psychology of people who might want to.

I love riding halfpipe. This is an amazing job to have.

You want kids to dream big.

I grew up watching my sisters and seeing kids at the local mountain hit jumps. After I hit my first jump, I knew this was something I was going to pursue.

Surfing waves of water or clouds of powder snow is the best feeling on earth.

Harry Potter' is my favorite series, and I've always loved that wish fulfillment, 'anything is possible' idea.

My kids are amazing and they are the ones that keep me going.

Geography was the lesson I always looked forward to most. It was a form of escapism. It could be bleak midwinter outside but inside you're learning about African farming methods or the Great Lakes. No other lesson had that excitement.

Life in 'Blue Peter's' world is always presented as happy, positive and fun. It's an adventure that you have to make the kids believe they want to join in. There are no marks for being a scaredy-cat.

The greatest are an inspiration for all the kids who wake up early in the morning. Everyone watches you, is inspired by you and wants to be you. So you influence society. That's what being more than an athlete means. I want more kids to have that opportunity. I want everybody to start with the same chance.

I am excited to partner with American Swan and to be able to connect with the youth and inspire them to chase their dreams and script their destinies.

The only sport I really get into is snowboarding. Cause that's the only sport where they perform a half pipe just after smoking a full pipe.

We all love challenges.

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

You're young, be adventurous, don't give up, and then your dream will come true.