Jamie Campbell Bower Quotes

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

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 got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.

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.

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.

I've skateboarded my whole life, and I'm going to keep enjoying it until my age prohibits me.

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.

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

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.

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.

Skating has so many styles. 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 started skateboarding at around age 10, and enjoyed the artistic aspect of it as much as the sporting aspect, so for me it was more of an art form and a lifestyle.

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

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.

Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.

I want to be a skater.

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.

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

I'd always loved what went on in skateboarding. I'd never skated myself, but I loved the graphics - I really liked the rebelliousness of it.

I'll skateboard now and then from time to time.

The evolution of the plaza always came from the idea of just a really good place to ride a skateboard that you could ride at anytime, and that's what the foundation always stands for - being a place that's free, open and legal... for those that are technical, to do really hard stuff, and for those who are learning, to just have fun.

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