Boards Quote by Christian Hosoi

I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50's & 60's in Hawaii, where my parents grew…

— Christian Hosoi

Before I actually got a hard surfboard at the age of 10, like a real board, I was always just trying to stand up…

— Donavon Frankenreiter

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on…

— Shaun White

When I was younger, I used to be a part of the surfing-and-skateboarding community.

— Katy Perry

Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor…

— Frederick Lenz

One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!

— Frederick Lenz

When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got…

— Dick Dale

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way…

— Jolene Blalock

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

— Christian Hosoi

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

— Shaun White

I remember surfing in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, even Madeira, when local fishermen had never seen a surfboard before, and refused to believe that we…

— William Finnegan

Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.

— Brandon Cruz