Quotes About Youth

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.

Working with the brand has taught me to keep it classy but also shake things up. I love that about Chanel because I get to be pretty, but I also get to ride my skateboard in Chanel.

Early skateboard culture had a lot of skulls.

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

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

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

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.

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.

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.

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

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

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

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.

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.

That's something I'm actually very interested in doing, helping young skaters.

I want to inspire the next generation of athletes, not just figure skaters.