Skateboarding Quotes

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

  Lance Mountain

  Sports, Stopping, Able

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

  Tony Hawk

  Skating, Quitting, Skateboarder

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• It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy

  Chris Cole

  Happy, Sports, People

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• I'll tell you one of the great activities is skateboarding. To learn to do a skateboard trick, how many times do you gotta get something wrong til you get it right? ...And you hurt yourself, and you learn to do that trick, now you got a life lesson. Every time I see those skateboard kids, I think 'those kids'll be alright.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hurt, Life Lesson, Kids

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

  Shaun White

  Mind, Body, Way

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• Life is a lot like skateboarding.

  Lil Wayne

  Life Is

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• 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.”

  Jamie Thomas

  Thinking, People, Together

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• Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. For most people, when they saw a swimming pool, they thought, ‘Let's take a swim.' But I thought, ‘Let's ride it.' When they saw the curb or a street, they would think about driving on it. I would think about the texture. I slowly developed the ability to look at the world through totally different means.

  Ian MacKaye

  Sports, Mean, Swimming

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

  Tony Hawk

  Sports, Art, Would Be

  "Tony Hawk... files like an eagle". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Interesting, Graffiti, Documentation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Wind, Games, Feet

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

  John Humphrys

  Eye, Thinking, World

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

  Lance Mountain

  Fun, Real, Terrible

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• Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

  Shaun White

  Fun, Thinking, Training

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• 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.

  Travis Barker

  Half, Body, Problem

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

  Mark Gonzales

  People, Laughing, Ifs

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• Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

  Roger Ebert

  Girl, College, Forever

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.254, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that had to be measured. It was completely opposite of what I saw in so many sports. It was creative. And to this day, that's what I love, that's always kept me back to it because it's endless creation.

  Rodney Mullen

  Sports, Team, Opposites

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• 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

  Air, Mind, Balance

  "Fitness Interview With Shaun White". www.foxnews.com. March 08, 2010.

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• 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

  Fun, Thinking, Achieve

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• 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

  Nice, Men, Clothes

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• 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

  World, Way, Skateboarder

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• 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

  Hurt, Fall, Trying

  "Interview: Bam Margera on Jackass 3D and Beyond". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. October 17, 2010.

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

  Ryan Sheckler

  Kids, Want, Realizing

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• Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

  Rodney Mullen

  Sports, Art, Expression

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