Skateboarding Quotes

“Nothing is too gnarly.”

— Danny Way

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

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

— Lupe Fiasco

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

— Tony Hawk

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

— Darby Allin

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

— Jay Adams

I'm too into skateboarding to be devastated by anything.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

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

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

— Daria Werbowy

I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.

— Frank Dukes

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

— Roger Ebert

It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy

— Chris Cole

I'd always loved what went on in skateboarding. I'd never skated myself, but I loved the graphics - I really liked the…

— James Jebbia

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that…

— Tony Hawk

I didn't want to make it look like I was taking skateboarding and using that as like a marketing thing for wrestling.

— Darby Allin

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

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

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

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

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s. My friends and I were into bicycle motocross…

— Scott Borchetta

I'm one of the fortunate ones to be making a good living for myself off of being a professional skateboarder. But there's…

— Nyjah Huston

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

— Rodney Mullen

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

— Mike Vallely

“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

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

I think that there's a sense of self-reliance that exists in skateboarding that kids can take to their daily lives. I think…

— Tony Hawk

The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got…

— Jeff Vespa

Skateboarding is a way to let your body control the mind.

— Shaun White

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

— Demetri Martin

If you skateboard, you cant be afraid to have people laugh at you.

— Mark Gonzales

Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently.

— John Humphrys

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

— Shaun White

I started skateboarding when I was 12, and I broke my leg when I was 19 so... seven years.

— Matt Costa

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

— Ryan Sheckler

When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.

— Mike Vallely

Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.

— Ryan Sheckler