Quote by Laura Hillenbrand

I've known Larry Clark since I was fourteen. I've always skateboarded in Manhattan. Larry got into the scene in the early '90s, taking pictures…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

“As Louie bent, gasping, over his spent legs, he marveled at the kick that he had forced from his body. It had felt very,…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“During the 1980s, he went jogging, something he had picked up during his stays in California, but when he found that the pleasure promised…

— Benoît Peeters

He's skating like he's 36 again.

— Mike Keane

When I was like 6, my brother took me to the park near our house in Braunschweig, Germany, and taught me to skate. We…

— Dennis Schroder

In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning…

— Jean Alesi

My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.

— Ryan Sheckler

Man, I feel like I hear people talk about the old 'Tony Hawk' games all the time, and that's what got them into skateboarding.

— Nyjah Huston

For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years. When I…

— Jay Adams

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and…

— Mike Weir

“A month earlier, twenty-six-year-old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break…

— Laura Hillenbrand

If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old…

— Larry Clark