Skateboarding Quotes

There is sort of an unspoken 'no skateboarding' clause on tour that I break pretty often.

— Matt Skiba

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

— Shaun White

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

— John Humphrys

My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.

— Ryan Sheckler

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

— Ryan Sheckler

Even when I'm at home, I keep to myself - skateboarding, riding bikes, and stuff in the house.

— Valee

Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid…

— Dustin Milligan

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

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

— Demetri Martin

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 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'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 a way to let your body control the mind.

— Shaun White

Being involved and hanging out with my brothers who skate is really amazing, especially because of our age. I mean, we're in…

— Christian Hosoi

“Nothing is too gnarly.”

— Danny Way

Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's…

— Merrill Markoe

Skateboarding, like graffiti, will never be tamed. No matter how much they monetize it, no matter how big it gets, no matter…

— Jeffrey Deitch

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells…

— 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

I grew up on the Bones Brigade as well. The very first skateboard video I saw was the Bones Brigade Video Show…

— Mike Vallely

All the skateboarding brands that I was into had graphic T-shirts. In the '90s, there were different styles that went along with…

— Virgil Abloh

When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving…

— Mark Hoppus

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

My dad was really controlling and he did want me to skate every single day. I would say he did it in…

— Nyjah Huston

For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years.…

— Jay Adams