Quotes About Adventure

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

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.

I want to be a skater.

Young people - and skaters - are very, very open-minded.

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

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

I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.

It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge fan.

I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate park with one of them. When I saw people flying all around - literally flying in and out of bowls - that is when I knew I wanted to do it. I wanted to figure out how I could get there and how I could fly.

I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.

At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating; I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.

For ice skating, you really have to block out your fears and throw yourself into it - there must be trust in your partner and a trust that you will be safe.

I used really into inline skating when it was the craze in the nineties and I got a really bad scar to prove 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.

There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'

There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.

I guess I just like the idea of digging things up. Although I used to be scared of human skeletons.

I am a keen medievalist and like going around museums and ruins and finding out about the people and local culture. I'm not one for sitting by a pool or lying on a beach. I also like to sketch while I'm on holiday, if I have time.

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

I love to hike, fly-fish, and ski in the mountains where I live in Colorado.