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Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

— Harmony Korine

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

— Tom DeLonge

I don't know if any of us imagined we would ever be up here getting ready to skate in the Olympics. But we've all…

— Nyjah Huston

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

— Roger Ebert

I remember watching the summer Olympics as a kid and knew that I wanted to be an Olympian one day. At the time, snowboarding…

— Jamie Anderson

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

— Amy Poehler

Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

— D.J. Cotrona

Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.

— Ryan Sheckler

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

— Ryan Sheckler

Skateboarding is something that I've loved ever since I started when I was five years old.

— Nyjah Huston

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect…

— Bonnie Langford

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

— Ashley Wagner