Skateboarding Quotes · Page 3

Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

— D.J. Cotrona

Man, I feel like I hear people talk about the old 'Tony Hawk' games all the time, and that's what got them…

— Nyjah Huston

So much of my life and my style and sensibility are influenced by skateboarding. It's counter-culture and skateboarding is my introduction to…

— Vic Mensa

When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to…

— Harmony Korine

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

— Daniella Monet

A lot of hip-hop sounds the same... same thing with skateboarding. But if you see someone coming out here doing some tricks…

— Nyjah Huston

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

— Nyjah Huston

When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was…

— Christian Hosoi

Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding.…

— Yelawolf

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me…

— Rodney Mullen

There were so many things associated with it in terms of music and fashion, and a different way of thinking that, for…

— Tony Hawk

I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to…

— Rodney Mullen

I love the ocean, and I love surfing. It's something so special and unique, and surfing is unlike any other sport. Skateboarding…

— Bethany Hamilton

I mean, really, skateboarding is just going out and having fun with your friends and filming cool tricks and challenging yourself and…

— Nyjah Huston

I think that skateboarding can absolutely help make peace... I know skateboarding can bring people together. You can travel anywhere and if…

— Jamie Thomas

Being in the Olympics isn't the chance for one of us to go out there and win the thing... It's growing skateboarding,…

— Nyjah Huston

I've been wearing Vans since I was a little kid. I wear them on stage, and I grew up skateboarding and surfing.

— Robert Trujillo

Just to bring the skateboarding into the world of wrestling means a lot to me, because that was huge in my youth.

— Darby Allin

When I was growing up, you could get arrested for skateboarding, and now it's going to be in the Olympics.

— Ti West

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

— Shaun White

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding…

— Stephen Baldwin

I like skateboarding because it's backyard danger. You don't need to go on an alpine holiday to get thrills.

— Grayson Perry

For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional…

— Ryan Sheckler

From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.

— Ryan McGinley

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

— Vic Mensa

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued…

— Jason Lee

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great…

— Shaun White

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

— Tony Hawk

We literally see things so differently, all the architecture and stuff. That's the cool part about skateboarding. We're out there skating stuff…

— Nyjah Huston

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live…

— Scott Caan

I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just…

— Ryan Sheckler

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

— Harmony Korine

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I…

— Travis Barker

The progression of skateboarding is seriously so gnarly!! Everyone gets so much better every year.

— Nyjah Huston

Skateboarding around in a pair of Toms on my last day of work is probably not the best idea that I've ever…

— Taissa Farmiga

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

— Shaun White

I was always interested in skateboarding, BMX bike riding, flipping, gymnastics. Anything with tumbling, turning, twisting, and extreme sports.

— Gza

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying,…

— Shaun White

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

— Jeffrey Deitch

When I was a kid, I used to make skateboarding videos, and I would pretend to be in a band and make…

— Shavo Odadjian