Ryan Sheckler Quotes

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

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

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'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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.

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

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

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 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.

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.

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

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

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.

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

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

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.

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

L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating.