Phil Heath Quotes

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

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.

The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

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

All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks... c'mon people, get with the program - the future is now!

Skating is now retro and hip.

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

The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

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

Dweebs are the new chic.

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.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

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

I want to be a skater.

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world!

I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

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.

There are constant challenges about what's 'mainstream.' These kids in 'Dope' are as mainstream as the kids in 'Superbad' or 'The Breakfast Club.'

I'd never been one for leaving the comforts of home. That person wasn't me; I didn't spend my formative years youth-hostelling round Rwanda or climbing Everest in a tie-dye playsuit to raise awareness of something or other.

I think that it's interesting how shows like 'Walking Dead' or even 'Game of Thrones,' with all its fantasy elements, have become so popular. Sometimes, though, I get a little bit annoyed because the whole nerd thing taking over and is now cool, and it wasn't cool when I was younger.

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

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s. My friends and I were into bicycle motocross and into skateboarding in empty swimming pools. Those activities shaped my generation.

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.