Top 55 Chloe Kim Quotes

Snowboarding requires lower-body strength.

I’m so happy to have all this support from everyone around the world, and I’m forever thankful for all of them.

I’m always working hard.

My father didn’t want to ski alone, so he took me up to the mountains in order to basically bribe my mom to come with him.

I missed out on a few proms, homecomings, might miss my graduation. I wouldn’t want it any other way… it’s worth it.

I did my first contest, and I got third, and my dad was, like, ‘Wow, she has potential.’ And I went back when I was 7, and I won. And my dad’s like, ‘All right,’ and then he dropped everything.

My mom wouldn’t let me dye my hair for the longest time.

You know, if you meet someone for the first time, they’re not going to bite you.

People ask where I’m from, and I say ‘Los Angeles.’ Then they ask again. ‘Well, my parents are from Korea.’

Luckily for me, snowboarding doesn’t really feel like work unless I’m actually doing stuff that’s, like, work-ish, but when I’m just snowboarding, I’m having so much fun.

I want to go to college.

I can play guitar – but I can’t really. I wouldn’t say I’m talented at it. I just kind of watch videos on YouTube, and I follow the instructions… OK, yeah, my hidden talent: I’m good at following instructions!

I think my riding has hopefully gotten a lot better, but I’m always trying to push myself.

I’m so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don’t really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that’s just – you know, I can’t walk around people like I’m, like, straight-up American. It’s like, I’m Korean American. My parents are from Korea.

I’m always trying to respond to my Instagram direct messages, even if they’re a little weird. I’ll have a Q&A on Snapchat and talk to everyone.

‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ is interesting, intriguing.

I just say, ‘Never give up.’

I was, like, talking to these kids, and I look up, and there was, like, 25 cameras around me. And I ran. I ran away. I, like, straight up ran away, and I was so scared, and then, like, it happened, and after I was done, it kinda sunk in.

Zendaya – she’s a boss – and Rihanna as well. I feel like those are two very powerful women.

I moved to Switzerland when I was 8, and during our breaks, we’d go to snowboard, and he’d take me to the mountains; we’d take a train. It was kind of crazy, you know. When I think about it, I wake up at 4, take a train to the mountains, sleep in the train and then go snowboard, and then come back. It was quite a mission.

Just because I’m young doesn’t mean I didn’t work hard to get to where I am.

I have two aunts and three cousins in Korea as well.

When I first started snowboarding, my dad pretty much dragged me into it. I wasn’t old enough to be like, ‘Oh, I wanna snowboard!’ you know?

I don’t get butterflies. I get a good feeling in my stomach before I compete. When I don’t, I get worried.

Honestly, I didn’t like snowboarding when I was a little girl. As I got older, it became something I did with my dad. When I was 10, I knew I was good for my age, but I never felt that I was prodigy-level or anything like that.

It’s such an honor to just represent the U.S. in the country where my parents immigrated from, and just this whole process has been amazing, and this journey has been so fun and full of so many memories that I will hold on to for the rest of my life.

I feel like I can represent both countries, in a way, because I have a Korea face, but I was born and raised in the States.

I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn’t surrounded by many people in my life.

My dad gave up his job; he stopped working – for me. Without that, I definitely wouldn’t be as successful.

Just going to the Olympics would be a dream come true. I could finish last, and it would still be an amazing experience.

It’s a pretty crazy adrenaline rush because I feel like every run is different. You can never really expect anything. It’s like a new adventure every time you drop into the pipe.

My dad would load me into the car under a pile of blankets in the middle of the night so I could sleep the whole way and be on the mountain when it opened.

I always want to do the best I can.

I feel like I have this unique opportunity to represent both Korea and the U.S.

I genuinely only want to work with people that I agree with on certain things. There were many sponsors I didn’t want to work with because I didn’t agree with their messages that they wanted to use me to convey.

If you give me fro-yo without mangoes, you’re dead to me. If you say that Hawaiian pizza is gross, we’re done.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

I knock on my board to unjinx myself.

Four is actually my lucky number.

I definitely have a lot of Korean-American fans, which is amazing.

I don’t think I made many sacrifices myself, but my parents have.

I’ve flown from Aspen and then to Switzerland the next day and then off again the day after. That’s the thing I love most about snowboarding, honestly – getting to travel and explore different places and meet people.

Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I’m feeling nothing but excitement.

I didn’t get a normal school life, and my sisters have told me so many fun stories about college, so I’m just so excited.

I always try to see it in positive way, like, you know what, the people that are expecting so much about of me know I can do it and believe in me. So I just kind of think about it like that. And it makes me feel a little better.

I try not to feel pressure, because I feel like it kind of throws you off. I always try to focus on myself. But it does kind of creep into the back of my mind.

To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.

I’m proud of my Korean heritage, but I want people to know I’m American. It’s not important to be the Korean Taylor Swift.

I’m, like, finishing up high school. I don’t know how you can learn anything from me because I’m still, like, a teenager. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life.

I hate it when I get grumpy. But I can only be high-energy for so long.

I freak out when I see a spider. I was doing an interview once, and there was this really big, furry spider crawling up the tripod, and I was like, ‘I can’t do this!’

The Olympics are just different. I’m not sure why; the pipe’s the same size, the board you’re riding is the same, you’re competing against pretty much the same people. But the Olympics is the Olympics, and I know it’s a really big deal.

I love competing so much.

I think I’ve started to have a lot more fun around snowboarding, even going out of the halfpipe and going to hit some jumps or getting some ‘pow.’ That definitely made it a lot more fun to me, just adding that much positivity into snowboarding.

It’s hard to describe my style. People will tell me that I’m really flowy.