Top 165 Skateboarding Quotes & Sayings

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

I'm too into skateboarding to be devastated by anything.

All the coverage of skateboarding sucks. They couldn't care less when it comes to how skateboarding is portrayed. All I can do is portray it the right way when it comes to me. So skateboarders can look at what I'm doing and say, "Yeah, the only person doing it the right way is him." That's why Street Dreams was so important in being 100% true to skate culture. That's why the Wild Grinders are important in showing the different styles of street skating. That's why I get involved in building the skate parks. All I can do is show skateboarding the right way.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

Skateboarding is not for girls at all.

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.

I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.

So much of my life and my style and sensibility are influenced by skateboarding. It's counter-culture and skateboarding is my introduction to counter-culture.

Skateboarding is something that I've loved ever since I started when I was five years old.

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

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.

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

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.

For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years. When I started it was clay wheels and mostly home made decks. We were just trying to copy surfing. Everything about skateboarding had to do with surfing. It was all about fun and a way to surf when the waves were shitty.

There is sort of an unspoken 'no skateboarding' clause on tour that I break pretty often.

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.

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

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

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

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.

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

I love skateboarding and rollerblading, but I'm not really allowed to do it because of my tennis.

Skateboarding has always been and continues to be creative and rebellious. Art and design are an extremely important part of skateboard culture, even if it's not recognized by the more elitist or pretentious members of the art world. Skateboarding itself requires creative adaptation to the streets and obstacles. My background as a skateboarder helped me to be a better street artist because I was already conditioned to look at the terrain opportunistically.

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership. To be honest, I think they need skateboarding more than we need them. Skateboarding's popularity is solidified for the most part in a lot of countries.

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

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.

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.

I learned from BMX and skateboarding how to take a fall.

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

I've been wearing Vans since I was a little kid. I wear them on stage, and I grew up skateboarding and surfing.

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

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

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

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.

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.

Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

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.

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.

All the skateboarding brands that I was into had graphic T-shirts. In the '90s, there were different styles that went along with the different influences in skateboarding, whether that be hip-hop or rock and roll and grunge. And that's what I was into, so I was following all that.

Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.

I started skateboarding when I was 12, and I broke my leg when I was 19 so... seven years.

I had a really lovely upbringing. I did a lot of skateboarding down country lanes.

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.

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

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.

When I was younger, I used to be a part of the surfing-and-skateboarding community.

In skateboarding, you're never bigger than the streets.

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

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.”

I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50's & 60's in Hawaii, where my parents grew up. They later moved to California and I was born. Skateboarding was the thing for surfers here in California in the 60's and my Dad immediately made me a homemade board.

California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.

Life is a lot like skateboarding.

Even when I'm at home, I keep to myself - skateboarding, riding bikes, and stuff in the house.