Rodney Mullen Quotes

#1. I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.

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#2. You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.

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#3. I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

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#4. Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

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#5. The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

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#6. Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground.

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#7. I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

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#8. Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

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#9. It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.

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#10. It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

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#11. The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

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#12. Who are you? What is your distinct contribution? That is so valuable whether it gets you anything or not. Trophies? Doesn't matter. If you know you did it, that's what keeps you going, you know? Success is illusive.

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#13. Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.

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#14. There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.

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#15. Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.

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