Latest Tony Hawk Quotes from Interviews

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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

• The best advice I can give is to believe in yourself and to create new challenges no matter how far you get. Even if you think you earned it all or if you're considered the best in the world, keep challenging yourself because you're only as good as your last trick in the public's eye. But only do it because you love it. Don't do it because you think it's your ticket to fame or fortune. If that's the motivation and you reach any of those goals, you're not going to keep that passion.

  Tony Hawk

  Motivation, Believe, Passion

• 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

• 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

  Motivation, Self Confidence, Thinking

  Source: www.andalucia.com

• 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.

  Tony Hawk

  Sports, Trying, Skateboarding

  Source: www.andalucia.com

• All I care about is that people remember me as a good skater, as someone who was innovative.

  Tony Hawk

  People, Care, Remember

  Source: www.andalucia.com

• 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

  Fashion, Thinking, Age

  Source: www.andalucia.com

• 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.

  Tony Hawk

  Sports, Team, Community

  Source: www.andalucia.com

• 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.

  Tony Hawk

  Art, Age, Skateboarding

  Source: www.andalucia.com

• I never imagined getting to do what I love for a living and having so many people appreciate it. There was only one other skater in my high school and we were the lowest form of cool. Our classmates couldn't figure out why we liked such a loser sport, or why we hadn't grown out of it yet.

  Tony Hawk

  Sports, School, People

  Kidzworld Interview, www.kidzworld.com.

• I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to do is put one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose and rock it up and down and that will get you into the tricks or wheelies or manuals. It's not about the balance so much as it is about the timing.

  Tony Hawk

  Thinking, Feet, Rocks

  Source: espn.go.com