Hopsin Quotes

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.

I want to be a skater.

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

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms, and real respect is given by how much we take what other guys do, these basic tricks, 360 flips, we take that, we make it our own, and then we contribute back to the community the inner way that edifies the community itself.

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

There is always the next big thing, the next big skater.

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 dirty kid: I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster. I was obsessed with Dogtown - I still am obsessed with Dogtown, the Z-Boys. I love Stacy Peralta and Jay Adams and Andrew Reynolds, all these guys. I used to think I was Chad Muska.

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

I'm a longboard guy.

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 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.

The team we had, the Hobie Vita-Pakt Super Surfer team, you know, the Hilton boys were on there, Conrad Hilton's grandkids, and they were really good. After being around those kids, I could ride a little. Do a 360, some kick-turns, stuff like that.

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

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.

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

I don't think the demographic for skating really entails a lot of basketball watching.

Snowboarding is skateboarding without the wheels, just on snow. It's the same thing, just that one is on hard ground with the wheels, the other is on snow. You just have to know how to maneuver your board and do things you want to do.

In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.

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.

What's skateable is limitless by design.

I've been wearing Vans since I was a little kid. I wear them on stage, and I grew up skateboarding and surfing.

I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.