Rodney Mullen Quotes

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• Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me…
• Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that:…
• Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is…
• Everyone expects me to do certain things,
• It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.
• I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style…
• Who are you? What is your distinct contribution? That is so valuable whether it gets you anything or not. Trophies? Doesn't matter. If you know…
• I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.
• Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much…
• Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into…
• The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.
• There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.
• You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.
• Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.
• What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is…
• The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.
• I learned to skate in our garage. We lived in the country in Florida, it was sort of farmish, and there was no cement anywhere…
• Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms, and real respect is given…

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