Rob Dyrdek

“In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.”

“I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.”

“I spend 2 hours a week in an infrared sauna.”

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

“'Wild Grinders' becoming an animated series, and airing on Nicktoons is another one of my boyhood dreams come true. I came up with the name when I was eleven years old, when I needed a name for my first skate crew - who knew it would turn into such a mega brand?”

“I try to seize every opportunity I can.”

“DC and Monster have always supported my vision for street skateboarding, from building skate plazas throughout the world to now creating the first-ever professional skateboarding league.”

“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.”

“There is nothing like watching a crazy video for the very first time.”

“Once you get a trick on film, it's there forever.”

“If my parents really understood how much I've learned that I could never learn in school, they'd be very proud. Instead, I'm still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop.”

“I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.”

“Sometimes I'll be somewhere, and the cops will show up to kick me out and end up just asking for a photo.”

“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.”

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

“What's skateable is limitless by design.”

“'Rob & Big' was a buddy comedy show.”

“I operate best on big vision and creative detail.”

“As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.”

“You knew LeBron James was going to be LeBron James when he was a sophomore.”