Shaun White

My family's always been there and I can only hope that I'm that for my family in the future.

I didn't drive myself to the mountains.

My parents got up every morning and drove me like, God, that's so awesome.

What an amazing thing to have in common with your family when you're growing up because so many families grow apart.

That was something we had together, but just the selflessness they had for me

And my siblings, you know, growing up, it didn't matter if it was me and snowboarding and my sister wanted to play soccer.

We're out selling candy bars, trying to get on the team and like get the new uniform.

Like it didn't matter whether it was what I wanted or, you know, we kind of gave a hundred percent for each member of the family.

And, um,

and snowboarding just happened to be the thing to take off but you know nothing can really replace that and I think at times I remember thinking like I loved obviously the family unit I had and it got strained a bit as obviously like the growing pains of like becoming more successful and having to travel and having you know the obligations and the media and things and it's like and you go oh well this is my life and this is my world and and you kind of get sucked up into it and

I remember at some point thinking that the family wasn't as important, but it truly is because when all that goes or whatever happens, you know, like they're there for you.

And what we talked about earlier in the basic simplest of ways that like they like you.

right right for who you are yeah they don't need you know like oh cool you won the uh that's great but we so we're gonna go see spider-man or we got you know whatever they they care um on that that deeper level and um you know at least i can only speak for my family's been that amazing that's cool support group for me so yeah that's great man i love these truths i hope i i won that

And everybody's got their thing.

And that's why I didn't realize, you know, you look at Instagram and people and you go, oh, that guy's got it together.

And I'm like, no.

No, he doesn't.

He's got a crazy uncle.

Everybody's got something.

And no, you're not alone in that.