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 Copy Share Image
I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued… — Jason Lee Copy Share Image
Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.' — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
I like skateboarding because it's backyard danger. You don't need to go on an alpine holiday to get thrills. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live… — Scott Caan Copy Share Image
Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty… — Bam Margera Copy Share Image
Snowboarding is skateboarding without the wheels, just on snow. It's the same thing, just that one is on hard ground with the… — Gza Copy Share Image
My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing.… — Ryan Sheckler Copy Share Image
My parents always did things a little bit differently. My three brothers, my sister and I didn't go to normal public schools… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm thankful to be a mixed racial person in skateboarding. I'm part Japanese too, so when I go over to Japan everyone… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Within the next five years, I predict major changes in the art world and it will look nothing like it did ten… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
Yes, Justin Bieber is a contrivance. Yes, Justin Bieber's lyrics are insipid - worse still, disingenuous. Yes, his tattoos stink. Yes, he's… — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard… — Jason Lee Copy Share Image
Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can… — Lance Mountain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Skateboarding, like graffiti, will never be tamed. No matter how much they monetize it, no matter how big it gets, no matter… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding.… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
I worked with a skateboarding instructor for three hours every day. We would go to the park and do ramps. I had… — Sadie Sink Copy Share Image
As an introverted kid who lived in the middle of nowhere, my stories made up the whole of my social life. That… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I'd say street skating is the most fun of the six skateboarding events for me personally. It's also because you can do… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I grew up on the Bones Brigade as well. The very first skateboard video I saw was the Bones Brigade Video Show… — Mike Vallely Copy Share Image
“Express to our world what is alive inside us not what their world says we should be… Our true selves should never… — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
My dad was really controlling and he did want me to skate every single day. I would say he did it in… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
I love skateboarding because it's the funnest thing on earth. And that goes for, not only if you're one of us about… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
Since my Dad was an artist, I grew up around art shows and openings and that had a big impact on me… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
