Rob Dyrdek Quotes

One of the best things to me about 'Skate' is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.

Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

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

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.

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.

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

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

In high school I used to go coast to coast all the time at 6-11.

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.

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.

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

I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.

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.

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.

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.

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

In skateboarding, you're never bigger than the streets.

With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.

Around 16 I began going out with friends to the city. That's where the action was. We would go to this place on Times Square - real shifty - and get fake IDs made up.

Funny how one halfpipe run can change your life.

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