Skate Park Quotes

I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating in a pack, it's a whole different sport.

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 worked with a skateboarding instructor for three hours every day. We would go to the park and do ramps. I had to wear a ridiculous amount of gear - elbow pads, knee pads, every kind of pad, plus a helmet - to stop myself from getting hurt.

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

I love to roller skate.

If there's a skateboard in front of me, I can't help myself. I like to jump on.

People say be safe and I hate that, so I go to Skate Lab with no pads

I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate park with one of them. When I saw people flying all around - literally flying in and out of bowls - that is when I knew I wanted to do it. I wanted to figure out how I could get there and how I could fly.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.

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

Even when I wasn't on the ice, I was always on my rollerblades.

When I know I'm not doing any auditions, I go to the skate park on my scooter or my bike.

I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.

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

My dad took me to the skate park every single weekend to see alternative bands.