Rodney Mullen

Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself…

— Rodney Mullen

I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird,…

— Rodney Mullen

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

— Rodney Mullen

Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and…

— Rodney Mullen

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

— Rodney Mullen

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me…

— Rodney Mullen

I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to…

— Rodney Mullen

It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around…

— Rodney Mullen

What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that…

— Rodney Mullen

It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first…

— Rodney Mullen

Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with.

— Rodney Mullen

I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.

— Rodney Mullen

As a kid, I grew up on a farm in Florida, and I did what most little kids do. I played a…

— Rodney Mullen

Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms, and real…

— Rodney Mullen

There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.

— Rodney Mullen

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot…

— Rodney Mullen

Everyone expects me to do certain things,

— Rodney Mullen

Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other…

— Rodney Mullen

Who are you? What is your distinct contribution? That is so valuable whether it gets you anything or not. Trophies? Doesn't matter.…

— Rodney Mullen

You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.

— Rodney Mullen

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

— Rodney Mullen

Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce…

— Rodney Mullen

I learned to skate in our garage. We lived in the country in Florida, it was sort of farmish, and there was…

— Rodney Mullen