Quotes About Skateboarding

When I first started snowboarding, nobody trained off-hill. People weren't going to the gym and getting stronger. Snowboarding was more self-expression, like skateboarding. It was just something you went and did. It wasn't something you trained for.

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.

I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.

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.

I've always had a fascination with skate culture.

I now get to have the life I wanted when I was 18 years old. Now, I'm like, 'I can buy any skateboard I want.'

I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.

I was a skateboarder when I was little; I still skateboard. I teach my kids how to skate.

I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.

I can't skateboard. I don't know how to do that!

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

I was a cool skateboard fan, who didn't like the system.

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

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

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.

I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.

I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.