Professional Skateboarder Quotes

#1. I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.

Jason Lee

#2. All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

Travis Barker

#3. Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

Bam Margera

#4. For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.

Ryan Sheckler

#5. I think that kids have a knack for detecting happiness, but they lose it as they get older. They have to. Otherwise they'd notice how unhappy everybody else is, and they'd never be able to be happy themselves.

Tommy Wallach

#6. I can do without a television or a telephone, I think.

Billy Burke

#7. Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective.

Micha Bar-Am

#8. Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Dick Brandon

#9. Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.

Emperor Norton

#10. A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

Art Spiegelman

#11. Buy the best you can find or afford and don't over manipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.

Tom Colicchio

#12. The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

Marian McPartland

#13. Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Ian Frazier

#14. Praise day at night, and life at the end.

George Herbert

#15. The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

Gautama Buddha