Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Nyjah Huston

My mom used to bake so many vegan goods when I was a kid, and I was always so hyped.

My parents always did things a little bit differently. My three brothers, my sister and I didn't go to normal public schools - we were home-schooled. We didn't play Little League or other team sports. We were a skateboarding family.

My parents bought an indoor skatepark in 2003 that was a perfect training facility for me.

I had been skating basically since I could walk. I started on my knees and would cruise around the local skatepark until I got comfortable enough to stand up. As soon as I went down my first ramp, I was addicted.

I've made money from a young age but it's never taken away from my love of skateboarding. I don't just do this for money.

Everyone deserves to have clean water.

I think that's one of the best things about skateboarding. We're all competitors out there, but no one dislikes each other.

As long as you're working hard for what you love doing, you'll have a good chance of getting somewhere with it.

I consider myself really lucky to have had such a good life.

When I was 13 years old, my family and I lived on a farm in Puerto Rico that didn't have clean, running water all the time.

What can I say? I love waffles.

Learning a new trick will just happen randomly when I'm skating and if I feel good doing it, I take it to a street spot. If I'm really confident in it I practice it a lot, so I can do it in a contest.

I was really shy because I didn't have much of a social life.

I wish I could skate every single day.

Drawing from personal experience and also knowing that so many people, kids, are still living without sanitary water... makes you want to make it easier for them.

My parents were childhood sweethearts that are now divorced as of 2010. My mother is Kelle Huston, who is also my current manager, and father is Adeyemi Huston, who is not involved in my life.

People assume they know you but they don't.

A lot of hip-hop sounds the same... same thing with skateboarding. But if you see someone coming out here doing some tricks no one's done before that's really cool.

To be out there in the Olympics skating the board that's actually my own and a company that me and my homies have started. It's a special feeling and it's only more motivation to go out there and kill it.

Ethiopia is beautiful. The people are so positive.

I grew up watching PRod and Chris Cole. To be able to skate with them in competition is an honor.

Let it Flow is a water charity that my mom and I started back in 2011. We focus mostly on building and the majority of the time, repairing wells because of the insane amount of the number of wells out there in the world just need to be repaired by simple parts.

My dad was really controlling and he did want me to skate every single day. I would say he did it in a little bit of a strict way, which probably wasn't necessary because bottom line I loved skateboarding and that's all I wanted to do anyway.

I normally get up around 8:30. I'll have a little something to eat. Just some avocado toast or some cereal or something. Or sometimes just a protein shake when I get up and then I'll go in my gym.

I'm the type of person who always has to be doing stuff. I have a hard time relaxing.

That is the most fun part of skateboarding, the challenges. There are always new possibilities.

I feel like sometimes people see us as like robots and out there expecting to win every time. But, in reality, that's not how it is, and it's not that easy.

I definitely learned a lot at a very young age.

The important thing to me is being productive. It helps me feel good as a person, helps me feel strong, helps me feel like I'm doing something throughout my days.

I would say my dad wanted to keep his kids isolated from social influences like going to school and making friends.

I've always been relatively small in frame.

I was too young to really remember it, but at one time, my family lived in Hawaii and Fiji because my parents wanted us to be exposed to different cultures and alternative lifestyles.

Whatever the competition, I'm always there to do my best.

Everybody remembers Tony Hawk's 900 at X Games V in 1999. That was an iconic trick that went beyond the sport and still makes highlight reels.

I was raised a vegan until I was a teenager.

When it comes to skateboards, it's hard because it's really a personal preference. Some people will like different shapes and sizes than others.

Even though skateboarding is considered a sport now and it is going to be in the Olympics for the first time, you always have to realize what got it there and what's going to always be important.

I don't know if any of us imagined we would ever be up here getting ready to skate in the Olympics. But we've all been working for this from a young age, even before it was possible.

A lot of the time, you know you can do a move; it's just really hard to get that first try out of the way.

Our father got us into skating and built us many ramps around our yard.

I literally used to skate every single day. Like, there was not a day I didn't skate.

My oldest brother was two years older than me, and a really awesome skater.

I do try to floss everyday cause it's obviously good for you and healthy.

I'm stoked that the Olympics finally put skateboarding in there. I was always a little confused about why it wasn't in there in the first place considering that snowboarding and other similar sports were in the Olympics.

Being in the Olympics isn't the chance for one of us to go out there and win the thing... It's growing skateboarding, creating more opportunity for kids to be able to fulfill their dreams of being a pro-skater.

I'm thankful to be a mixed racial person in skateboarding. I'm part Japanese too, so when I go over to Japan everyone loves me there, when I go somewhere where there are a lot of Black people they'll love me there too.

I remember when I went to the first Street League event in 2010 in Glendale, Arizona. I was only 15.

I don't remember much about the first time I stepped onto a board but I remember absolutely loving it, since then it's literally the only thing I wanted to do.

Power and strength are most important for my skating.

I mean, really, skateboarding is just going out and having fun with your friends and filming cool tricks and challenging yourself and just really just having a good time. That's what skateboarding really is.

I like skating big stuff, and you need the power to get on those obstacles and take the impact coming off. You need the strength to take the hard falls.

I literally started skating handrails when I was seven years old, with no helmet on, so I was just bred into this type of skating where you have to be kind of fearless and just go for it.

It's crazy to think that back when I was 11 years old I was skating X Games.

It's hard for our sport to pass into the mainstream, to make it onto 'SportsCenter.'

As a street skater, I am always on the move and always looking for convenient ways to refuel.

Stretching always helps me start my day in a good way.

There's definitely a lot of people out there in the industry who feel that skateboarding shouldn't be a competitive sport. Or be a sport in general at all. Those are the people who want to keep skateboarding at the core side of things. But me personally, I love seeing the sport of skateboarding grow in general. It's just going to naturally happen.

You never know when you're gonna come across a sick skate spot, or a skate park you wanna stop at, so as long as I'm not injured, I'm always gonna have my board on me, and my skate shoes, and whatever I need to go out there and get a little session in.

I'd say street skating is the most fun of the six skateboarding events for me personally. It's also because you can do it anywhere. You don't need a specific ramp or competition; you can just go shred anywhere around your hometown and have a blast with it. That's the best part about street skating.

Everything from my friends and family to my career have gone really well, and the next step in life is to do your best to help other people in every way possible.