Shaun White Quotes

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.

Shaun White

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 3, 1986

Topics

GreatBalanceMindWayAwareness

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

GodAgeTimePeopleYouLos Angeles

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.

Andrew Davies

MoneyYouMoviesHandDirtLow

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

John Shirley

WritingThinkWithoutSocialHeavy

People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into trouble.

Steve Madden

PeopleCandidTroubleAlwaysAfraid

You would probably think that rock music is an urban phenomena, but the main reason for doing it in '68 was so that we could play music very loud any time of the day or night without getting complaints from the neighbours.

Steve Winwood

MusicTimeDayNightThinkDoing

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

Shirley Temple

TimeMoneyTroubleWastedMeans

You appreciate things after you lose them.

Jaromir Jagr

AppreciateYouLoseThingsAfter

I loved my computer; it's a tool. A tool increases your mechanical advantages. It allows you to use your strengths and talents to greater advantage, and that's what tools do, and that's what my computer does for me. It's not my toy, it's my tool.

Jok Church

MeLovedToolsYouTalentsTool

Many people don't understand ring control. They think they do until they're against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

Conor McGregor

PeopleControlThinkSomeoneFall

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Clara Barton

FaithPastMeBetterTyrannyNew

Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.

Allen Iverson

LifeMeParentUnderstandNeverKid

I always cringe when people tell me they don't eat breakfast, as though that's a good thing. Eek! You have to start the day off with something in your stomach to get your metabolism active. Also, the mental game of 'holding out,' not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place.

Alison Sweeney

GoodDayPeopleBreakfastMeStart

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