Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it. — Mark Gonzales
Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion. — Tony Hawk
The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there. — Shaun White
Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder. — Lance Mountain
I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board. — Shaun White
I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality. — Tony Hawk
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. — Tony Hawk
Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is. — Lance Mountain
I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion. — Tony Hawk
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. — Wayne Gretzky
And I love what I do and I love skating. — Nancy Kerrigan
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. — Jeremy London
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. — Tony Hawk
Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way. — Todd Bridges
Short Skateboard Quotes
Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway. — Ryan Sheckler
It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second. — Sean Malto
When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding. — Demetri Martin
When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding. — Mike Vallely
To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee. — David Spade
I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11. — Shaun White
I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies. — Elle Fanning
It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again. — Shaun White
Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six. — Bam Margera
Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun. — Shaun White
Skateboard Image Quotes
Skateboard Life Quotes
My first on-screen kiss was lame: Nickelodeon. But my first real-life kiss was super cute and nice, but still very awkward. It was with this hot skateboarder with dreadlocks. He was my little Rasta man. — Christian Serratos
Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder. — Stacy Peralta
Skateboarding and that whole industry just became so far away. I was trying to find that ultimate place, that place of contentment but I couldn't. I didn't find it in pushing the dark things of life to the limit either. — Christian Hosoi
My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities. — 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
I think skateboarding is hugely challenging - it teaches you self-confidence, it teaches you self-motivation, and it can be something that helps you throughout your life. — Tony Hawk
There were so many things associated with it in terms of music and fashion, and a different way of thinking that, for me, skateboarding represented so much of what I wanted to do with my life at an early age. — Tony Hawk
From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos. — Ryan McGinley
My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding. — Ryan Sheckler
Skating Quotes
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. — Marvin Olasky
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. — Scott Hamilton
Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks. — Michelle Trachtenberg
I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards. — Dorothy Hamill
Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast. — Pete Domenici
Snowboard Quotes
I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences. — Justin Trudeau
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. — Dave Barry
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out. — Marc Newson
But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon. — Bridget Hall
I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. — Dave Barry
What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative. — Shaun White
I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime. — Shaun White
Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah. — Bridget Hall
I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer. — Jessica Szohr
Roller Skating Quotes
If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark. — Leopold Fechtner
Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley! — Dr. Seuss
And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
and when she arrived there were
red-hot iron shoes,
in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
clamped upon her feet. — Anne Sexton
Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting. — George Sanders
I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise. — Diana Ross
He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. — Alan Ayckbourn
I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards. — Yolanda Adams
Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun. — Frank Zappa
Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates. — John Dean
She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates. — David Nicholls
It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy — Chris Cole
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun. — Tom DeLonge
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 started it was clay wheels and mostly home made decks. We were just trying to copy surfing. Everything about skateboarding had to do with surfing. It was all about fun and a way to surf when the waves were shitty. — Jay Adams
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
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 I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera. — Larry Clark
They'll try to apply the rules of the day to the game, where you can't touch your board with your hands, or you can't step off your board, etc and I want nothing to do with it. It's like a game from a different planet or something and it's hard for me to relate to anybody who would think of skateboarding in such a narrow way. — Mike Vallely
Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we’re good at, we never learn anything new. — Justin Bieber
Skateboarding, like graffiti, will never be tamed. No matter how much they monetize it, no matter how big it gets, no matter how many companies are putting millions and millions of dollars into marketing it, it's always going to be some Mexican kid on a corner in Echo Park that changes the rules of the game. — Jeffrey Deitch
One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act. — Jeffrey Deitch
One thing about everything that I've done is it's so diverse and all over the place, from doing crazy stunts that I can't believe that I've done to launching professional skateboard leagues to all types of different business stuff and television shows. To me, I'm real proud of the body of work, that I've done as opposed to one thing specifically. — Rob Dyrdek
I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it. — Lance Mountain
I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. — Judith Viorst
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 Margera
I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday. — Ryan Sheckler
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
Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign. — Merrill Markoe
Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle. — Lil Wayne
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
When I was a kid, I was always around boys. I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and snowboarding. If my brother was mowing the lawn, I had to mow the lawn. If my brother was using a hammer, I needed to use a hammer. I've always been a little bit of a feminist. — Daria Werbowy
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
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time. — Pink
I tried partying and going out, doing drugs and even dealing drugs to support my habit. I was hanging out with people from the underground who were doing illegal things all the time. I was experimenting with more and more drugs to the point where skateboarding was the last thing on my mind and my family was next to last. — Christian Hosoi
The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports. — Mark Hoppus
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
For me, I'm a skateboarder.If I'm not skating then I'm going crazy. The big deals, if I'm not skating, it's not worth it. — Rob Dyrdek
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
Being involved and hanging out with my brothers who skate is really amazing, especially because of our age. I mean, we're in our mid-late forties and we're still skateboarding in competitions. Who'd have ever thought? — Christian Hosoi
Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog. — Bret Anthony Johnston
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