Quotes About Skateboarding

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.

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.

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

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

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.

The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn't know who was ahead or if it was a close game.

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.

Even when I'm at home, I keep to myself - skateboarding, riding bikes, and stuff in the house.

I've actually said 'get off my grass' to people before. They were skateboarding on my grass!

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

California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.

One of the best things to me about 'Skate' is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.

Skateboarding for me is a whole lot different for me than before the TV fame, if you will, because going out in the street is a little bit different.

Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.

So much of my life and my style and sensibility are influenced by skateboarding. It's counter-culture and skateboarding is my introduction to counter-culture.

I'd always loved what went on in skateboarding. I'd never skated myself, but I loved the graphics - I really liked the rebelliousness of it.

I love skateboarding and rollerblading, but I'm not really allowed to do it because of my tennis.

All the fans who see me ride through the city are laughing. They can't believe the manager of Leipzig is skateboarding! They like it. They never say, 'He's crazy.' They recognise that you are living a normal life.

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.