A Quote by Jay Adams

You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.

Jay Adams

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Because Got Old Quit Skateboarding

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Jay Adams
American - Skateboarder
February 3, 1961 - August 14, 2014

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

I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge any more.

David Feherty

Man, I feel like I hear people talk about the old 'Tony Hawk' games all the time, and that's what got them into skateboarding.

Nyjah Huston

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

Alison Mosshart

When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.

Harmony Korine

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

Jack Benny

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Wanting to quit is a sign of success because it means you have something to quit; but don't quit.

Matthew Barnett

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

Jeffrey Deitch

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.

Nyjah Huston

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

Jeff Dunham

When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.

Jonas Blue

I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.

James Ellroy

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.