Gretchen Bleiler Quotes

I decided I want to represent the U.S. and show what snowboarding's all about.

Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.

The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

The inclusion of slope style in the Olympics is cool. I think it's going to be a total breath of fresh air. The Olympics needs us more than we need it.

I'm a pretty good snowboarder but a terrible surfer.

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

I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

I was a snowboard bum and a climbing bum.

Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games.

I like snowboarding, and I like to watch it.

From Enve Composites to Bluehouse Skis, Utah companies are making breakthrough products for biking, winter sports, water sports and more.

When I first started snowboarding, there weren't a lot of girl riders on the hill.

As a fan of skiing and surfing, I take great interest in Olympics.

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.

I'm excited to join the Mountain Dew snowboarding team.

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

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.

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.

I bought my first dirt bike when I was 12, and I started racing motocross when I was 15 and started getting pretty successful. Then I started racing snowmobiles at 17 and decided I wanted to focus on that and see if I can make a career at it.

It was a no-brainer to get the Unified snowboarding race into X Games.

Action sports is just in a new era: thinking outside the box, being creative, and inventing new things. I just think people dig that. It's a new way of being an athlete.

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.

There's times when I'll be out in the middle of the track, standing in the curve, and I'll just laugh. 'What the heck am I doing right now? I'm sliding down the hill at crazy speeds and standing in freezing cold weather.'

Snowboarding has taken me so many different places.