Skateboarding Quotes

You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

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.

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

If you skateboard, you cant be afraid to have people laugh at you.

Life is a lot like skateboarding.

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

Some girls can skate but I personally believe that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit.

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.”

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.

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.

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.

I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

I started skateboarding at around age 10, and enjoyed the artistic aspect of it as much as the sporting aspect, so for me it was more of an art form and a lifestyle.

Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently.

I live to ride, and ride to live.

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.

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

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.

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.

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.

Skateboarding is a way to let your body control the mind.

I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.

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.

Skateboarding is not for girls at all.

I'm too into skateboarding to be devastated by anything.

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.

It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.

If you really want a career in professional skateboarding,you really got to stop pushing mongo.

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

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.

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.

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

My son's 8 he loves his skateboarding and his bike and his snowboard.

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.

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

All the coverage of skateboarding sucks. They couldn't care less when it comes to how skateboarding is portrayed. All I can do is portray it the right way when it comes to me. So skateboarders can look at what I'm doing and say, "Yeah, the only person doing it the right way is him." That's why Street Dreams was so important in being 100% true to skate culture. That's why the Wild Grinders are important in showing the different styles of street skating. That's why I get involved in building the skate parks. All I can do is show skateboarding the right way.

I'm proud that I was able to use my recognition to, maybe, raise the awareness of skateboarding and help grow it, and to help fund public skateparks. That's the legacy, just trying to grow the entire sport.

I started skateboarding when I was 12, and I broke my leg when I was 19 so... seven years.

From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.

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.