Skateboarding Quotes

I live to ride, and ride to live.

— Ryan Sheckler

“Nothing is too gnarly.”

— Danny Way

Skateboarding is not for girls at all.

— Nyjah Huston

Life is a lot like skateboarding.

— Lil Wayne

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

— Ellie Bamber

I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.

— Lupe Fiasco

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport.

— Tony Hawk

When I was younger, I used to be a part of the surfing-and-skateboarding community.

— Katy Perry

My skateboard is magical and musical, it gives me wings and makes me dance in loops and whirls.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Obviously, I like doing crazy stuff given my history of skateboarding.

— Darby Allin

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

— Tony Hawk

It's insane how, with skateboarding, every week, I was getting broken ankles and stuff.

— Darby Allin

I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateboarding. So I put down…

— Steve-O

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…

— Nyjah Huston

I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.

— Lance Mountain

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding,

— Daria Werbowy

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they…

— Alison Mosshart

Some girls can skate but I personally believe that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit.

— Nyjah Huston

Skateboarding is interesting. You can't really practice it as much. It takes a big toll on your body. Your legs get really…

— Nyjah Huston

I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop…

— Pedro Winter

When I moved from Armenia to L.A., I moved to North Kingsley Drive. That was my street, that's where I grew up…

— Shavo Odadjian

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly…

— Lucy Walker

I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just…

— Jason Lee

It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now…

— Larry Ellison

I'm proud that I was able to use my recognition to, maybe, raise the awareness of skateboarding and help grow it, and…

— Tony Hawk

Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I…

— Greg Cipes

I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50's & 60's in Hawaii, where my…

— Christian Hosoi

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the…

— Tony Hawk

“He realizes finally that the boy he's been watching snap his board into the air, then neatly touch down- long, black, gleaming…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

Through skateboarding, I have an open line of communication, some common ground and common ground is big man. That enables me to…

— Mike Vallely

I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was…

— Adam Sandler

All the coverage of skateboarding sucks. They couldn't care less when it comes to how skateboarding is portrayed. All I can do…

— Rob Dyrdek

Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should…

— Francesca Lia Block

Skateboarding has always been and continues to be creative and rebellious. Art and design are an extremely important part of skateboard culture,…

— Shepard Fairey

Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world…

— Ian MacKaye

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

— Jeffrey Deitch

You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.

— Jay Adams

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

— Tony Hawk

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

— Kim Shattuck