ROB DYRDEK

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.

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

With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.

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

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.

Sometimes I'll be somewhere, and the cops will show up to kick me out and end up just asking for a photo.

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

There's nothing more ridiculous than seeing yourself in a video game.

There is nothing like watching a crazy video for the very first time.

I try to seize every opportunity I can.

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

Once you get a trick on film, it's there forever.

I was raised by some very grounded, hardworking, Middle America parents.

As a professional skateboarder, I can't look at anyone getting hurt - it freaks me out.

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.

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.

Anything is possible if you're willing to work for it.

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.

You knew LeBron James was going to be LeBron James when he was a sophomore.

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.

I've got some alien blood in me.

In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.

The mainstream thinks that every skateboarder aspires to be in the X Games.

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 spend 2 hours a week in an infrared sauna.