Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Rob Dyrdek
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Angolan entertainer Rob Dyrdek.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.
There's nothing more ridiculous than seeing yourself in a video game.
As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.
There is nothing like watching a crazy video for the very first time.
The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn't know who was ahead or if it was a close game.
In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.
Once you get a trick on film, it's there forever.
I don't think I've ever had a vacation, to be quite honest with you.
I try to seize every opportunity I can.
The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.
If my parents really understood how much I've learned that I could never learn in school, they'd be very proud. Instead, I'm still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop.
'Rob & Big' was a buddy comedy show.
You knew LeBron James was going to be LeBron James when he was a sophomore.
I've got some alien blood in me.
I can't watch myself on TV.
MTV has a been a great partner over the years. I'm truly grateful for the platform they've provided for me to create and refine compelling, entertaining media at the highest level.
'Wild Grinders' becoming an animated series, and airing on Nicktoons is another one of my boyhood dreams come true. I came up with the name when I was eleven years old, when I needed a name for my first skate crew - who knew it would turn into such a mega brand?
I spend 2 hours a week in an infrared sauna.
DC and Monster have always supported my vision for street skateboarding, from building skate plazas throughout the world to now creating the first-ever professional skateboarding league.
I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.
I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.
No one can fathom that the top 200 pro street skaters run from cops on the weekends and use a generator and lights to light up a handrail at 2 in the morning to get a trick that's going to be in an advertisement that will be shown around the world.
The evolution of the plaza always came from the idea of just a really good place to ride a skateboard that you could ride at anytime, and that's what the foundation always stands for - being a place that's free, open and legal... for those that are technical, to do really hard stuff, and for those who are learning, to just have fun.
With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.
As a professional skateboarder, I can't look at anyone getting hurt - it freaks me out.
The mainstream thinks that every skateboarder aspires to be in the X Games.
Justin Bieber, I love to death. He's such a cool, ridiculous, much crazier kid in real life - more than he's really allowed to be, because he's a Unicorn and very rare.
Sometimes I'll be somewhere, and the cops will show up to kick me out and end up just asking for a photo.
Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.
Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness - of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.
Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.
As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.
In skateboarding, you're never bigger than the streets.
I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.
No matter what I do, how much money I make, where I live, or what kind of car I drive, the stuff I skateboard on is the same stuff that every other kid in L.A., every kid in the country, everybody in the world is skateboarding on.
The serious professional skateboarder doesn't have a job. They get paid enough not to.
Anything is possible if you're willing to work for it.
I operate best on big vision and creative detail.
Business is my passion.
Without a doubt, Dana White is my biggest influence.
I built a very methodical television show around my business. I learned how to use television as a platform to advertise products. I created a platform showcasing the stuff that I build. It's taking the integration model to another level.
California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.
My entire life is a single body of work.
I was raised by some very grounded, hardworking, Middle America parents.
For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.
One of the best things to me about 'Skate' is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.
I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long.
What's skateable is limitless by design.
With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you're at, but the future of who's going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.
Skateboarding for me is a whole lot different for me than before the TV fame, if you will, because going out in the street is a little bit different.
Sure things are going to get sketchy, but when your having the time of your life whats sketchy?
What I love to tell young kids is ultimately let your dreams evolve around your opportunities. You have to focus on always learning. It's cliche, but the reality of it is that if you take action and try and fail you're gonna learn a lot by the time you try it again, and you'll build a foundation of experience that's gonna be ultimately the rock that allows you to find success or follow your dreams.
Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another pillar of your success.
No one gives you anything in life. You gotta work hard and go after it to get it.
My gift is execution; when I decide I'm going to do something, I'll stop at nothing to do it. Along the way, you take a lot of risks and go for it, but you have to believe in it. You gotta believe in your idea, and lucky for me, I found a lot of success in that.
In all aspects of life, it's always much funner when you surround yourself with people you enjoy being around.
In life some people trip and some fall but some take that trip and make a beautiful dance out of it.
Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness, of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.
EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS A FANTASY UNTIL YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE IT A REALITY.
No one is going to give it to you. Spend everyday getting better and focus on that which you can control, let everything else fall into place. You can't stay focused on what you can get from success, but rather focus on becoming successful!
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