Skateboarding Quotes

“When I moved from Armenia to L.A., I moved to North Kingsley Drive. That was my street, that's where I grew up and I saw everything there. I started skateboarding there. I witnessed homelessness, the poor, you know, I noticed gangs. I learned about friendship.”

“Man, I feel like I hear people talk about the old 'Tony Hawk' games all the time, and that's what got them into skateboarding.”

“I had a really lovely upbringing. I did a lot of skateboarding down country lanes.”

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

“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.”

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

“Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.'”

“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 feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.”

“When I was a kid, I used to make skateboarding videos, and I would pretend to be in a band and make rock videos that I'd edit with two VCRs.”

“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 training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.”

“Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.”

“I mean, really, skateboarding is just going out and having fun with your friends and filming cool tricks and challenging yourself and just really just having a good time. That's what skateboarding really is.”

“I love skateboarding because it's the funnest thing on earth. And that goes for, not only if you're one of us about to skate the Olympics or just a kid out there skating your skate park, just having fun. It's the freedom, the love. It brings us all together and the nonstop challenge and the progression.”

“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.”

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

“Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.”

“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.”