Quotes About Transition

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

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

I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and I were the only skaters in our high school. He runs my foundation now.

I kind of thought like many skaters, 'aw, I'm not going to coach, I've already spent my 22 years in the rink.'

Baseball is my true passion. Skating was more of a short-term goal.

There were times when I thought of dropping skating completely and just focusing on baseball.

Right now it looks like skating is done for me. I'm ready to move on. But if baseball doesn't work out and I still have that itch for skating, I may be back.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

My skating career won't last forever.

I stopped amateur skating competitively when I was 15.

In skating, I knew that 2014 was going to be it for me. I had my heart set on trying baseball again after.

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do.

When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'

But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket.

It's a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it's a great skill to go from screen to stage.

I really feel like going up to 170, I'm going to really be able to show my skill set.

My first profession was public accounting; I became a CPA. I was three years into public accounting - great profession, great skill set, but I didn't want to do it forever.

I came into the industry as an actor. And moved on to become a star with the help of my dancing skills.

When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.

I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing penniless with no skills. Men in their 30s and early 40s, old for boxing, young in life, but also old in the job market if you're just getting started with no education. These guys need someone in their corner.

One has to shed one's old skin for a positive change.