Shaun White Quotes

I've not received any major sponsorship deals or anything else.

Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.

Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.

I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

I love working with sponsors.

I think every athlete wants to get sponsored. If you do really well in your sport, then I think sponsorship can help you get rewarded in that sense: doing what you can for your sponsor. It's just another achievement in life.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.

Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.

I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

I had plenty of offers to do sponsorships and TV commercials, but it's just not in me. I would love to get that out of me, but I just don't feel comfortable with it.

They're still considered Olympic eligibles, so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now.

No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete, it just took me a while to realise it would be in racing. I played field hockey competitively for Ontario since I was 13, 14. Then I tried for the national side and made it. But it was so competitive. The girls were just so big and strong. I was getting crushed.

I wish I had more opportunities to play for Canada when I was younger, but pros just never had the chance in those days. It was just set up that way.

I have plenty of sponsors, and I'm the first American that Pretorian has sponsored.

It's either join the workforce or become a professional athlete, and I'd rather be a pro athlete.

We have all the money in the world but do not realise how important the body is. A player on average has a seven year professional career, 10-15 if everything goes right. You have to do everything possible to be at your maximum.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

I made more from sponsorship than I did from fighting. I did that for the longest time.

I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.

I'm more than blessed to be able to play a PE sport for money.

To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have any option. That was my way out.

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.