Skateboarding Quotes

Life is a lot like skateboarding.

— Lil Wayne

Skateboarding is not for girls at all.

— Nyjah Huston

I live to ride, and ride to live.

— Ryan Sheckler

“Nothing is too gnarly.”

— Danny Way

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

— Mark Cavendish

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

— Mike Vallely

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

— Nyjah Huston

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

— Ryan Sheckler

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

— Matt Skiba

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

— Adam Sandler

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

— Valee

That is the most fun part of skateboarding, the challenges. There are always new possibilities.

— Nyjah Huston

Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

— Lance Mountain

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

— Tony Hawk

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big.…

— Harmony Korine

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

— Shavo Odadjian

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

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

— Gza

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

— Shaun White

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

I wasn’t, you know, Mr Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to…

— Iwan Rheon

I'm stoked that the Olympics finally put skateboarding in there. I was always a little confused about why it wasn't in there…

— Nyjah Huston

Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Sports. I cofounded this organization in 2005 to help…

— Amy Purdy

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

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

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

Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can…

— Lance Mountain

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

— Jeff Vespa

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

— Shepard Fairey

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

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

— Ian MacKaye

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

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

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

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 grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

— Tom DeLonge

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

— Shaun White