Skateboarding Quotes · Page 2

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

Skateboarding is something that I've loved ever since I started when I was five years old.

— Nyjah Huston

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

I learned from BMX and skateboarding how to take a fall.

— Mark Cavendish

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

— Valee

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

— Matt Skiba

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 love skateboarding and rollerblading, but I'm not really allowed to do it because of my tennis.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

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

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

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

— Ti West

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

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

When I was a kid, I was always around boys. I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and…

— Daria Werbowy

Skateboarding and that whole industry just became so far away. I was trying to find that ultimate place, that place of contentment…

— 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

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 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 still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.

— Adam Sandler

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

— Christian Hosoi

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 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

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

— Taissa Farmiga

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

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

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

I started skateboarding at around age 10, and enjoyed the artistic aspect of it as much as the sporting aspect, so for…

— Tony Hawk