quotes about Skateboarding
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I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.
-- Adam Sandler -
I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.
-- Adam Sandler -
Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
-- Bam MargeraSource : "Interview: Bam Margera on Jackass 3D and Beyond". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. October 17, 2010.
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My son's 8 he loves his skateboarding and his bike and his snowboard.
-- Brett Hull -
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When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding,
-- Daria Werbowy -
I wasn’t, you know, Mr Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.
-- Iwan Rheon -
If you really want a career in professional skateboarding,you really got to stop pushing mongo.
-- Jamie Thomas -
I think that skateboarding can absolutely help make peace... I know skateboarding can bring people together. You can travel anywhere and if someone’s skateboarding, they like you regardless of where you’re from or what you do. You skateboard and that’s it.â€
-- Jamie Thomas -
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I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.
-- Jason Lee -
You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.
-- Jay Adams -
Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.
-- Lance Mountain -
I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.
-- Lance Mountain -
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If you skateboard, you cant be afraid to have people laugh at you.
-- Mark Gonzales -
Some girls can skate but I personally believe that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit.
-- Nyjah HustonSource : "Silicon valley could learn a lot from skater culture. Just not how to be a Meritocracy" by Katherine Sierra, www.wired.com. February 23, 2015.
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I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.
-- Ryan Sheckler -
Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.
-- Ryan Sheckler -
For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.
-- Ryan Sheckler -
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My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.
-- Ryan Sheckler -
If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.
-- Ryan ShecklerSource : Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. October 15, 2007.
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My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.
-- Scott Caan -
Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.
-- Shaun White -
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Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.
-- Shaun White -
I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasnt that great at skateboarding. So I put down the skateboard and just kept going with the camera.
-- Steve-OSource : Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.
-- Tom DeLonge -
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.
-- Tony Hawk -
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I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
-- Tony HawkSource : "Tony Hawk... files like an eagle". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
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I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.
-- Tony Hawk -
All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
-- Travis Barker -
When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was going to get in my way.
-- Christian Hosoi -
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I started skateboarding when I was 12, and I broke my leg when I was 19 so... seven years.
-- Matt Costa -
When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.
-- Mike Vallely -
I grew up on the Bones Brigade as well. The very first skateboard video I saw was the Bones Brigade Video Show and I'd always valued the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta as the ultimate in skateboarding.
-- Mike Vallely -
I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was mainly into heavy metal and grunge.
-- Pedro Winter -
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I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.
-- Alison MosshartSource : Source: www.elle.com
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I wasn’t, you know, Mr Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.
-- Iwan RheonSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently.
-- John Humphrys