Snowboarder Quotes

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it.

It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it.

Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough.

If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative.

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts.

With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun.

We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.

The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you.

With a snowboard on your feet the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for everyone.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also a lot of symmetry. They each have their own biorhythms from a motherly embrace to tempestuous wrath. What I love about being out in nature is that you are at the mercy of your own decision making.

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

Bryan [Iguchi] had this beautiful philosophy about our connection with these incredible cycles. There's a line from one of his poems that always stays with me about 'This process we follow; this cycle we ride' and it's almost become a strap line for the film.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

When your location is a snowy mountain in the winter the obstacles are pretty extreme.

I get a lot of inspiration from my surroundings, people I'm with.

Mother Nature. It's combination of everything and really wanting to live life to the fullest. I feel very fortunate to be healthy, so I try to take advantage of it.

I find I enjoy myself most on those days when it's just me and a couple close friends away from it all. True human interaction in a day when we are all spread so thin.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.

I've seen definitive change in the mountains.

I have concerns for the future generation. We inherit the earth from the people in front of us, and then we pass it on to the next generation. I don't think we've done a great job with our responsibility to leave the earth a better place than what we were born into.

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

Having all eyes on me at all times is hard to deal with, but it's great.

It feels like you've already accomplished something. It's already predetermined that you're going to do well.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.

I knew there was a certain level that I could get to within the sporting world.

But as I continued with my career, not only did I grow, but the sport grew. All of a sudden, all of these doors opened to me. It's been amazing. I guess I was born at the right time.

There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.

I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you;

you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Man, the feeling of the make is something that I can’t put to words, it’s the very best feeling in the world. I just chase that, it’s a very real feeling and straight up, I am addicted to it.

In the past people would say, "I can only do this world-class snowboarding if I have a helicopter." Actually, if you're committed to it, willing to put a bunch of energy into it, then you can do it under your own power.

I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.

We were looking at weather and our relationships with weather.

It goes to a few other places, and I don't want to spoil anything, so I won't go into it, but it's about a willingness to expose oneself a little bit more and share something openly and honestly. It's more than just landing tricks. Moving forward, this is just another stepping stone.

In all aspects of my life, I try to reduce my impact on the earth - that includes snowboarding, as well.

The balancing act is challenging at times.

You can’t let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element.

Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.

I knew Shin [Biyajima] a little bit early on, but it's funny because where I really met Shin, and where he made a strong impression on me, was in Jackson Hole. I sledded back to a secret zone way deep in the Jackson backcountry to some freeriding. I got out there and followed some snowmobile tracks figuring it's just some snowmobilers.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

You’ve got to fight for that connection with God all the time no matter what you're going through in life. I'm growing up. I'm maturing. But I definitely think that the backbone of this is the freedom and creativity I have without the fear of failing. If I fail, what's going to happen? Nothing. I'm not looking for my self-worth in the sport.

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games.

It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

Our society has got to evolve and create better ways of living.

I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan's backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.

Cement doesn't give as much as snow.

I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.