Quotes from Nyjah Huston

I do come from a very humble background.

I won the biggest amateur contest when I was 10, and I was into X Games the next year. And then I was in a 'Tony Hawk' game the next year!

Man, I feel like I hear people talk about the old 'Tony Hawk' games all the time, and that's what got them into skateboarding.

I remember when I went to the first Street League event in 2010 in Glendale, Arizona. I was only 15.

My parents bought an indoor skatepark in 2003 that was a perfect training facility for me.

Let it Flow is a water charity that my mom and I started back in 2011. We focus mostly on building and the majority of the time, repairing wells because of the insane amount of the number of wells out there in the world just need to be repaired by simple parts.

Our father got us into skating and built us many ramps around our yard.

When it comes to skateboards, it's hard because it's really a personal preference. Some people will like different shapes and sizes than others.

I grew up watching PRod and Chris Cole. To be able to skate with them in competition is an honor.

I wish I could skate every single day.

My parents bought a motorhome and would take us to skate competitions throughout California when I was only seven or eight years old.

That is the most fun part of skateboarding, the challenges. There are always new possibilities.

I'm trying to think about my future and be smart in the way I'm using my money and saving my money and making money outside of skateboarding.

I think that's one of the best things about skateboarding. We're all competitors out there, but no one dislikes each other.

Even though skateboarding is considered a sport now and it is going to be in the Olympics for the first time, you always have to realize what got it there and what's going to always be important.

As I get older in my skateboarding career, I would like to get more into the business side of things - starting my own company or investing.

I hope that skateboarding gets a lot of new fans out there and that people start to fall in love with it and get to realize that it's a really fun thing to do and a really fun thing to watch, especially as far as the competition goes.

Being in the Olympics isn't the chance for one of us to go out there and win the thing... It's growing skateboarding, creating more opportunity for kids to be able to fulfill their dreams of being a pro-skater.

Skateboarding is something that I've loved ever since I started when I was five years old.

There's definitely a lot of people out there in the industry who feel that skateboarding shouldn't be a competitive sport. Or be a sport in general at all. Those are the people who want to keep skateboarding at the core side of things. But me personally, I love seeing the sport of skateboarding grow in general. It's just going to naturally happen.

As a street skater, I am always on the move and always looking for convenient ways to refuel.

I don't like to think of myself as famous because us skaters, we think of ourselves as normal people. But I really do have to be more careful about what I do and the way I set examples for everybody.

My oldest brother was two years older than me, and a really awesome skater.

I love skateboarding because it's the funnest thing on earth. And that goes for, not only if you're one of us about to skate the Olympics or just a kid out there skating your skate park, just having fun. It's the freedom, the love. It brings us all together and the nonstop challenge and the progression.