Skateboarding Quotes - Page 3

• When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.

  Mark Hoppus

  Growing Up, Nice, Apology

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Skateboarding is not for girls at all.

  Nyjah Huston

  Girl

  "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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• Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.

  Yelawolf

  Thinking, Expression, Hip Hop

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• I think that there's a sense of self-reliance that exists in skateboarding that kids can take to their daily lives. I think there's also a sense of creativity and community-based goals - in skating, even though it is an individual pursuit, a lot of things that you learn are things that you borrow and expand from other people's ideas. I call skating a combined evolution - it's individual, it's artistic, but at the time, there is a communal push to keep doing your thing. And a sense of camaraderie in that.

  Tony Hawk

  Creativity, Kids, Thinking

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• I think skateboarding is better now in terms of the amount of facilities and the amount of support young skaters have - including encouragement from their parents. There was definitely an element to it when I was younger that was exclusive and kind of rebellious because most parents didn't want their kids skating. They thought it was a bad influence.

  Tony Hawk

  Encouragement, Kids, Thinking

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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

  Seven, Broke

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• Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!

  Dustin Milligan

  Sports, Disappointment, Crazy

  "Dustin Milligan’s Shark Weeks". Interview with Katie Mendelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2011.

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• 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.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Dream, Style, Important

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

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Punk, Subculture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half pipe snowboarding. I am fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I am also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

  Lucy Walker

  Sports, Snowboarding, Surfing

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• The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.

  Jeff Vespa

  Mother, Cutting, Zines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Soulmate, Kindness, Believe

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• I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

  Jason Lee

  Fun, School, Class

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• I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

  Jason Lee

  Beach, Years, California

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. October 2, 2000.

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• Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.

  Jeff Ament

  Writing, School, Rocks

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

  Ryan Sheckler

  Remember, Whole Life, Skates

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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

  Football, Body, Wrecks

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• If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership. To be honest, I think they need skateboarding more than we need them. Skateboarding's popularity is solidified for the most part in a lot of countries.

  Tony Hawk

  Summer, Country, Winter

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

  Shaun White

  Snowboarding, Underdog, Exciting

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

  Ryan Sheckler

  Race, Car, Active

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. October 15, 2007.

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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

  Hurt, Want, Bones

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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

  Dad, Thinking, Dimes

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• I love the ocean, and I love surfing. It's something so special and unique, and surfing is unlike any other sport. Skateboarding is amazing, you get the adrenaline rush, but you don't get the feel of the ocean, of doing its own thing. Totally surrounding you. Definitely a unique thing, it's a blessing, and a huge part of my healing process I would say.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Sports, Ocean, Healing

  Source: whatculture.com

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• Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

  Daniella Monet

  Brother, Growing Up, Kids

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• Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.

  Greg Cipes

  Art, Halloween, Turtles

  "Interview with Greg Cipes, TV's Michelangelo". Interview with David Burszan, www.denofgeek.com. November 4, 2013.

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