A biography for Nyjah Hustonhasn’t been written yet.
“You never know when you're gonna come across a sick skate spot, or a skate park you wanna stop at, so as long as I'm not injured, I'm always gonna have my board on me, and my skate shoes, and whatever I need to go out there and get a little session in.”
“It's always sunny here in Cali, even in the winter.”
“If you feel like you're wearing something that you're stoked on, I feel like it actually makes you want to skate better.”
“I've made money from a young age but it's never taken away from my love of skateboarding. I don't just do this for money.”
“My parents bought an indoor skatepark in 2003 that was a perfect training facility for me.”
“Drawing from personal experience and also knowing that so many people, kids, are still living without sanitary water... makes you want to make it easier for them.”
“Everyone deserves to have clean water.”
“My dad was really controlling and he did want me to skate every single day. I would say he did it in a little bit of a strict way, which probably wasn't necessary because bottom line I loved skateboarding and that's all I wanted to do anyway.”
“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.”
“I literally started skating handrails when I was seven years old, with no helmet on, so I was just bred into this type of skating where you have to be kind of fearless and just go for it.”
“As a street skater, I am always on the move and always looking for convenient ways to refuel.”
“I would say my dad wanted to keep his kids isolated from social influences like going to school and making friends.”
“It's crazy to think that back when I was 11 years old I was skating X Games.”
“I love competing. I take it really seriously.”
“I don't like eggs because I couldn't get used to it after not growing up with them.”
“I do come from a very humble background.”
“I'm one of the fortunate ones to be making a good living for myself off of being a professional skateboarder. But there's hundreds and hundreds of pro skateboarders out there that are professional and they are so good at what they do. But... there's just not that much money in skateboarding.”
“It's hard for our sport to pass into the mainstream, to make it onto 'SportsCenter.'”
“When I was four years old, we lived in the Fiji islands, but I don't remember much.”
“My parents were childhood sweethearts that are now divorced as of 2010. My mother is Kelle Huston, who is also my current manager, and father is Adeyemi Huston, who is not involved in my life.”