Red Gerard Quotes

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

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

The inclusion of slope style in the Olympics is cool. I think it's going to be a total breath of fresh air. The Olympics needs us more than we need it.

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

I ski, I surf, I scuba dive... any sport that starts with an 's.'

I do kung fu. I box. I ride horses. I like to race cars in a crazy way.

When you're a skateboarder or a snowboarder, it affects the way you talk, the way you move, the way you interact with the world and other people.

We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things.

Funny how one halfpipe run can change your life.

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

When I was a kid, I used to wake up every single day and skateboard. All I would think about is skating, but it wasn't like I wanted to be a pro skater. It was more of just that's what I did. I also roller bladed a lot.

I was always interested in skateboarding, BMX bike riding, flipping, gymnastics. Anything with tumbling, turning, twisting, and extreme sports.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

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.

I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.

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

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 love to ski and drive fast cars and the thrill of exciting things.

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

If being a skateboarder were a personality type and not actually an athletic activity, then I'd say I'm a skateboarder. But I don't ride one. I'm a bicycle person.

I was a snowboard bum and a climbing bum.

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.

Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games.

I took up scuba diving, and my next big thing is BASE jumping.