Shaun White Quotes

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.

Some people really think I'm an ex-pro player.

You should want to run if you're a player, shouldn't you, on offense?

People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.

I was a better hockey player than I was a baseball player.

Snowboarding requires lower-body strength.

I've played the game for 23, 24 years. Four months off, I'm not going to lose it.

People would expect me to be this ditzy, bubblegum-pop girl. I was selling myself short.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

I've been good at the game of basketball my whole life, so I'm hoping I can get back to that.

I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.

I think everybody who sees me would think that I'm really scary or something. But I'm not!

When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.

For me, I just focus on playing, playing at a high level. And when you can't do that any longer, you've got to get off the train.

Young kids do not see tennis as a 'fun' sport.

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

Because of my pseudonym Gulzar, which is how I am known, some people think I am a Muslim.

Every player has different skills.

I may not be the most athletic, but I understand the game.