Shaun White

if i was gonna win again how would i do it and then i started like well i'd have to have a coach that you know did this for me and i'd have to have the pta you know and i started to build this scenario and i was like wow that actually it's doable you know and then i had like fun little goals along the way so like at the one olympics my goal was to um i wanted to be on the cover of rowan stone um which which had happened after the one olympics the first one i went to i was 19 uh-huh

And my goal was like, well, if I win again, they might call me and I'll be ready this time.

Because I remember taking the photo, I'd just flown in from wherever.

I was like, they're like, take your shirt off.

I was like, I never take, I'm so white.

And I remember the photos coming out.

I was like, I don't know how I feel about this.

And anyway, so I was like, if it happens again.

I'll be, yeah, this will happen.

And I'll do this and this.

And I remember watching, like, I got really into Guns N' Roses and Axl did a show where he's in these tiny American flag shorts.

Yeah, yeah.

I was like, well, I can't run that.

But what if I had pants?

And so like I had these pants made and it became all about like trying to get on the Rolling Stone cover and to wear these pants rather than like winning the Olympics.

So it kind of changed the goal to something fun and funny rather than this daunting task of winning the Olympics.

But obviously winning the Olympics would mean I got to wear the pants or whatever.

So it literally all happened.

I won the Olympics.

Rolling Stone called.