Andy Rooney Quotes

I`ve had an amazing reception here today, everywhere. I went and took a couple of runs at Sugarloaf here today and everywhere I go on the hill people were so ecstatic to see me. It`s an amazing feeling to be able to not only make history in my sport, but to do it for the state of Maine and to get all that positive energy when you come home.

A lot of it is for the culture of the freestyle side of the sport. It can build confidence for you, too. Like if you`re out and dominating for the day and able to mess around, it can be a thing that works in your favor.

Especially for snowboard cross, endurance is huge. All of us are strong athletes. Ski racers, in the downhill, do one run a day. We did six today, plus warm-up runs. Those are minute-30 (second) runs, so you need a lot of endurance to pull that off.

I try to equate it to motocross because the jumps, the terrain features, are really pretty similar. It`s very spectator friendly, especially for Americans.

In 2002, the American pipe guys came out and put on an amazing show. That kind of got the buzz going about snowboarding. Snowboarding is really becoming the heart and soul of the Olympic games.

The whole urban movement in snowboarding is still a little bizarre to me. Those kids can slide on rails, but they don`t really know how to snowboard, and this is going to highlight what it`s like to really be able to ride a board.

Here, we`ll have a chance to influence the younger generation. They`ll see another path they can follow.

It`s a realization of this dream that I`ve been chasing for a long time. From the time that I was 10 and started snowboarding, this was what I wanted to do. Bringing that dream to fruition, it`s pretty amazing.

I think this could be a big sport. Our country loves NASCAR. They love the racing element of it. This is like that on snowboards.

I was excited because it was less a question of whether I could make the team as it was of what I could go there and accomplish. Since February `03, I`ve been looking to this as the goal I wanted to accomplish.

Vegetarian - that`s an old Indian word meaning `lousy hunter`

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don`t need to be done.