Seth Wescott Quotes (23 Quotes)

Sometimes it's subconscious, but that was putting on a show. You've got to choose your time and make sure you don't miss.

I had momentum going for me and I didn't want to wait to see if I had another opportunity to pass. I was going for the gold.

I have no idea what it's about. But I'm not complaining.

It's a super course, longer than usual, but not very hard it has good flows.

It's a little bizarre. You'd have people yelling from the chairlift, and it was adults a lot of the time. It was disheartening at times. I was a 10-year-old kid feeling prejudice from adults. In the early '90s there was a huge transition.

It's kind of like NASCAR. Pick a guy and root for him. There is nothing to understand. It's just whoever's the fastest to the bottom of the hill every time.

One of my hopes is that maybe for a lot of the U.S. TV-watching public there's those who wouldn't tune into an X Games, but would the Olympics. I'm hoping that it will be eye-opening in the same way.

It was good that she got carried away. It would have been a shame if she didn't.

One of the big points that make this sport exciting is head-to-head competition.

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.

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.

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

When I went for the pass, I went for the gold. I didn't want to wait to see if there was another opportunity.

There'll be a lot of air time, all the turns are very technical, so we'll be able to carry a ton of speed. The course is on the long side for us -- a minute thirty. And then there's two big jumps at the finish.

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 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.

I didn't want to wait and see if there was going to be another opportunity. This was the first time to be able to pull this off and make history.

To have a great race like that in the finals, I think it just makes the sport look good.

I had the momentum going right then, and I didn't want to wait to see if there was going to be another opportunity.

I think snowboarding is really becoming the heart and soul of the Olympic Games.

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.

I just knew if I was patient and confident that I'd reach the part of the course that I could work a little better, catch the speed on him. Then coming into that one turn, I dove the inside line on him like clockwork. That's how it worked out.

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.