Quotes from Nyjah Huston

Andrew Reynolds, Chris Cole - all those guys are the people I grew up watching and they're some of the gnarly gnarliest dudes out there.

Everyone deserves to have clean water.

When I was 13 years old, my family and I lived on a farm in Puerto Rico that didn't have clean, running water all the time.

Stretching always helps me start my day in a good way.

I love competing. I take it really seriously.

That's the fun part about it compared to most other sports out there. There are so many ways to have fun with it and so many different things and ways to skate and ways to be creative and always switch it up and challenge yourself.

My parents were childhood sweethearts that are now divorced as of 2010. My mother is Kelle Huston, who is also my current manager, and father is Adeyemi Huston, who is not involved in my life.

I only drink coffee when I'm actually feeling tired. I've never wanted to become dependent on it, to be one of those people where I wake up and have to have coffee.

My parents always did things a little bit differently. My three brothers, my sister and I didn't go to normal public schools - we were home-schooled. We didn't play Little League or other team sports. We were a skateboarding family.

The important thing to me is being productive. It helps me feel good as a person, helps me feel strong, helps me feel like I'm doing something throughout my days.

My success as a young athlete contributed to major disagreements between my parents and my mom had to make the ultimate decision to leave.

I feel like sometimes people see us as like robots and out there expecting to win every time. But, in reality, that's not how it is, and it's not that easy.

Yeah, so my dad was a skater back in his teenage days, and he used to skate pools and bowls and stuff and vert ramps - and he was actually pretty good. But his parents were just never the most supportive of it.

I'm thankful to be a mixed racial person in skateboarding. I'm part Japanese too, so when I go over to Japan everyone loves me there, when I go somewhere where there are a lot of Black people they'll love me there too.

I consider myself really lucky to have had such a good life.

It's always sunny here in Cali, even in the winter.

I have learned to spend money wisely.

Honestly so much money gets taken for taxes from contest winnings that you have to be smart with it. People think that because I won 200 grand, I actually got 200 grand, but a big chunk of that gets taken out. You have to be very smart with your money.

We're skateboarders, we have rebellious ways.

As long as you're working hard for what you love doing, you'll have a good chance of getting somewhere with it.

I normally get up around 8:30. I'll have a little something to eat. Just some avocado toast or some cereal or something. Or sometimes just a protein shake when I get up and then I'll go in my gym.

Skateboarding is interesting. You can't really practice it as much. It takes a big toll on your body. Your legs get really tired really fast. If I skate too much, I'll be way too sore.

I've always been relatively small in frame.

I'm the type of person who always has to be doing stuff. I have a hard time relaxing.