Rob Dyrdek Quotes

I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.

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

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

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

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

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.

Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate... He's legit.

This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.

Everyone probably says this, but my favorite athlete is Tony Hawk. I'd really love to meet him.

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

I've known Larry Clark since I was fourteen. I've always skateboarded in Manhattan. Larry got into the scene in the early '90s, taking pictures and skating with us.

In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven't seen before. Just different types of spin.

For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

I was a skateboarder when I was little; I still skateboard. I teach my kids how to skate.

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.

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

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

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.

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.