Quotes from Nyjah Huston

I like skating big stuff, and you need the power to get on those obstacles and take the impact coming off. You need the strength to take the hard falls.

I love going to around the public parks and just skating around the kids and stuff with them and obviously going out with my friends and going out and hitting the streets and stuff.

Skating and style just goes hand in hand, I think.

I love skating in shorts, it's really comfortable.

It's crazy to think that back when I was 11 years old I was skating X Games.

I literally started skating handrails when I was seven years old, with no helmet on, so I was just bred into this type of skating where you have to be kind of fearless and just go for it.

To be out there in the Olympics skating the board that's actually my own and a company that me and my homies have started. It's a special feeling and it's only more motivation to go out there and kill it.

We literally see things so differently, all the architecture and stuff. That's the cool part about skateboarding. We're out there skating stuff that's not meant to be skated.

When I was four years old, we lived in the Fiji islands, but I don't remember much.

I would say my dad wanted to keep his kids isolated from social influences like going to school and making friends.

After I win a contest the only thing I allow myself to do is buy a little bit of jewelry - but that's only if I win. And that's about it.

I'd say street skating is the most fun of the six skateboarding events for me personally. It's also because you can do it anywhere. You don't need a specific ramp or competition; you can just go shred anywhere around your hometown and have a blast with it. That's the best part about street skating.

I don't know if any of us imagined we would ever be up here getting ready to skate in the Olympics. But we've all been working for this from a young age, even before it was possible.

I've made money from a young age but it's never taken away from my love of skateboarding. I don't just do this for money.

I definitely learned a lot at a very young age.

Learning a new trick will just happen randomly when I'm skating and if I feel good doing it, I take it to a street spot. If I'm really confident in it I practice it a lot, so I can do it in a contest.

Drawing from personal experience and also knowing that so many people, kids, are still living without sanitary water... makes you want to make it easier for them.

Everybody remembers Tony Hawk's 900 at X Games V in 1999. That was an iconic trick that went beyond the sport and still makes highlight reels.

I mean, really, skateboarding is just going out and having fun with your friends and filming cool tricks and challenging yourself and just really just having a good time. That's what skateboarding really is.

A lot of hip-hop sounds the same... same thing with skateboarding. But if you see someone coming out here doing some tricks no one's done before that's really cool.

With the Olympics, you have to bring out all the best tricks to win.

Contest skating is about figuring out the hardest tricks you can do that you can also land every time. It doesn't matter if it's a kickflip back lip or a kickflip front board or a hardflip. Any trick you feel really confident in and you can land any time, those are the tricks you bring to the contest.

I was really shy because I didn't have much of a social life.

Honestly, I have the quickest metabolism ever, I can eat as much as I want and barely gain any weight. So I just try to eat as much as I can every day.