Shaun White

snow and um you know next thing you know i'm like in a helicopter flying to the hospital i'd like rip my face open and um 62 stitches and i had like pulmonary lung contusion it was just like a really bad crash yeah

And I was like, okay, well, this wasn't part of my plan.

Literally right before, yeah.

I remember seeing this.

And I was just like, okay, like, you know, is this a sign that I should stop?

Is this, what is this?

And I really had to sit with myself and think about it and go, okay, well, this is in my way for some reason.

Like, what's to be learned from this?

Yeah.

you know and it just really kind of straightened everything out for me as as strange as that sounds like basically yeah I'd been telling myself it'd be great to win the olympics and oh this would be nice and oh I could do this afterward and you know I mean I had all my plans and and then I had this horrible crash and I was like okay well how badly do you really

And even saying you want it, but how badly do you really want it?

Because going back out on the snow means in some small percentage, but there is a percentage, that I'm willing to let this happen to myself again.

And it was horrible.

My face is hanging open.

I'm trying to eat, you know, yogurt or whatever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's miserable.

And it's your face, too.

So like me looking in the mirror and all I remember is the sweetheart angel of a person, this woman named Esther, who's my physical therapist.