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I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while.
I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.
When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party... you better be a damned fairy.
Some girls can skate but I personally believe that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit.
Kids get caught up in technical & electronic things like games & videos when all we had were magazines.
I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.
Sometimes I'll be somewhere, and the cops will show up to kick me out and end up just asking for a photo.
I'm a 6 AM guy. I get up at 6 AM every morning so I can knock out my email, phone calls and start the day.
I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.
Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate... He's legit.
Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'
Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.
Take this wealth and this fame, always stay humble, keep your family close, and do ridiculously crazy things.
Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy
In all aspects of life, it's always much funner when you surround yourself with people you enjoy being around.
I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.
I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them.
I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."
The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.
Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness, of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.
I'd searched everywhere for this thing called love. I went through life seeking something that would be the ultimate.
I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.
Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness - of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.
If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.
I just personally really enjoy having a clean body. I shower twice a day. I just like feeling clean and feeling smooth.
I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.
I strive to do my best every single time and I think that's something the skate community knows about me and appreciates.
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.
Lakers are my boys! I'm 100 percent the biggest Kobe fan on the planet. I text him after every game to tell him what's up.
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right.
With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.
We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.
It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.
I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.
I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.
You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.
Every question I'd ever had God answered and still continues to answer every one I have today. It's really amazing what God can do.
Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.
California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.
I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.
I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.
Don't be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have just gone for it. Guys are such wimps.
I'd gotten to the place where I wanted to quit using drugs but couldn't and finally I landed in that prison cell where everything was cut.
I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of a community but to do it in my own way.