Jeff Ament Quotes

I hung out with all the guys in my neighborhood when I was little... I would, like, skateboard and go to skate parks, like, every day and do motor cross, like, every weekend, and I was kind of one of those girls.

We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch it.

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

I want to be a skater.

That's pretty much all I do - skate, surf, and jam.

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

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

I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success.

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

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.

I'm a dirty kid: I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster. I was obsessed with Dogtown - I still am obsessed with Dogtown, the Z-Boys. I love Stacy Peralta and Jay Adams and Andrew Reynolds, all these guys. I used to think I was Chad Muska.

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

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating.

Rock climbing and surfing are two of my favorite things in life.

I started surfing when I was working on 'The Hunger Games,' out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn't play football that fall.

Me and my mates go free running all the time. It's not my mum's favourite sport. I've probably jumped four metres on to grass and two metres between buildings. It's nothing like you see on the Internet, with guys jumping off skyscrapers, but it's fun.

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

My dad took me to the skate park every single weekend to see alternative bands.

I snowboard because I love it. It's just a cool way to be out there and doing something different instead of going to college.

Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.

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

I have two skateboards, but I don't get to use them much. I have a snowboard, which I've never used.

From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.