#bout

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. ↗

— Shaun White

#anybody #board #consistency #flick #flying

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. ↗

— Shaun White

#feet #giant #intense #launching #off

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. ↗

— Shaun White

#i #i think #just #know #me

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. ↗

— Shaun White

#always #been #bummer #catching #hawaii

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. ↗

— Theodore White

#american #american politics #anything #arts #cannot

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. ↗

— Theodore White

#america #book #came #columbus #court

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world! ↗

— Shaun White

#compete #everyone #games #half #i

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier. ↗

— Theodore White

#bus #chorus #composition #felt #flew

Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey? ↗

— Roger Wicker

#about #allies #because #cause #did

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#borders #complex #illegal #illegal immigration #immigration