Quotes from Rob Dyrdek

MTV has a been a great partner over the years. I'm truly grateful for the platform they've provided for me to create and refine compelling, entertaining media at the highest level.

I was raised by some very grounded, hardworking, Middle America parents.

With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.

I love everything I do and I can still remember the days of cashing my first royalty check for $2. I have such a great life, I'm proud of everything.

I spend 2 hours a week in an infrared sauna.

My entire life is a single body of work.

In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.

No matter what I do, how much money I make, where I live, or what kind of car I drive, the stuff I skateboard on is the same stuff that every other kid in L.A., every kid in the country, everybody in the world is skateboarding on.

The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn't know who was ahead or if it was a close game.

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.

California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.

One of the best things to me about 'Skate' is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.

Skateboarding for me is a whole lot different for me than before the TV fame, if you will, because going out in the street is a little bit different.

Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.

At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.

I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.

Once you get a trick on film, it's there forever.

I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long.

You knew LeBron James was going to be LeBron James when he was a sophomore.

If my parents really understood how much I've learned that I could never learn in school, they'd be very proud. Instead, I'm still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop.

No one gives you anything in life. You gotta work hard and go after it to get it.

I operate best on big vision and creative detail.