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When the pressure's on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.
If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.
Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.
I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.
I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.
I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.
You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.
I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever.
A weird thing happens when you're taken out of your normal clothing and put into USA gear.
Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.
When kids come up to me and say. 'I want to be like you,' it fires me up. It's pretty cool.
I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.
Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.
Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.
I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.
I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.
There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.
The Olympics is really awesome, but for some snowboarders, it's not the biggest thing in the world.
When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.
I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.
It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.
I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.
You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.
Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.
Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.
The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.
I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.
I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.
If you're going off a 90-foot jump, you can't say: 'Oh, I don't want to do this now.' You're going no matter what.
Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.
There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.
I couldn't do my homework if my room wasn't clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.
It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.
My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.
I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.
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.
When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.
I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.
If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'
If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.
It's tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality - who hasn't seen you on TV and is like, 'Hey!'
The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That's cool if you're a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person.
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.
I like that you can easily flip the sheets over and have a different feel or vibe in your room. You don't have to go get a whole brand-new set of sheets.
I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.
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.
On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.
When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.
I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.
If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.