Skateboarding Quotes · Page 3

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

— Vic Mensa

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

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

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

— Grayson Perry

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

— Stephen Baldwin

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

— Shaun White

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

Solitary pursuits like playing video games and skateboarding can't compete with the thrill of mobbing a teammate as he scores the winning…

— Steve Rushin

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty…

— Bam Margera

I'll tell you one of the great activities is skateboarding. To learn to do a skateboard trick, how many times do you…

— Jerry Seinfeld

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

All the fans who see me ride through the city are laughing. They can't believe the manager of Leipzig is skateboarding! They…

— Julian Nagelsmann

They'll try to apply the rules of the day to the game, where you can't touch your board with your hands, or…

— Mike Vallely

I hope that skateboarding gets a lot of new fans out there and that people start to fall in love with it…

— Nyjah Huston

When I first started snowboarding, nobody trained off-hill. People weren't going to the gym and getting stronger. Snowboarding was more self-expression, like…

— Gretchen Bleiler

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

— Nyjah Huston

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

— Travis Barker

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

— Harmony Korine

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

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

— Harmony Korine

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

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

— D.J. Cotrona

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

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

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

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

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

— Christian Hosoi

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

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

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

— Daniella Monet

Some girls can skate but I personally believe that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit.

— Nyjah Huston

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they…

— Alison Mosshart

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 a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.

— Lance Mountain

I've made money from a young age but it's never taken away from my love of skateboarding. I don't just do this…

— Nyjah Huston

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

It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.

— Shaun White