Skateboarder Quotes

#1. Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

Stacy Peralta

#2. 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

#3. I was extreme ... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

Pink

#4. I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.

Lance Mountain

#5. My first on-screen kiss was lame: Nickelodeon. But my first real-life kiss was super cute and nice, but still very awkward. It was with this hot skateboarder with dreadlocks. He was my little Rasta man.

Christian Serratos

#6. I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.

Ian Anthony Dale

#7. I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

Ian MacKaye

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

Bam Margera

#9. I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

Travis Barker

#10. Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

Lance Mountain

#11. I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.

Jason Lee

#12. I am a skateboarder, and to stay fit for skating I have to stay away from a lot of things. I go to parties and that's fun for me, but between skating and lifting and everything, I know what I have to do the next day, so I'm very conscious about my schedule and keeping it.

Ryan Sheckler

#13. Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we're good at, we never learn anything new.

Justin Bieber

#14. YOLO. A slogan, a rallying cry, carpe diem for the skateboarder set: You only live once. But was it true? That was the problem, wasn't it? She had never thought about it in any deep way. She hadn't had the time or inclination to speculate about other lives: this one was hard enough to manage.

Sharon Guskin

#15. People hate me for whatever reasons they come up with, or they hate me because their friends said they should. What can I do about it? What can I do about people who look at things the wrong way? At the end of the day it's like, 'You're wrong, I'm just a skateboarder. How can I help you?'

Ryan Sheckler

#16. There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.

Ian MacKaye

#17. I consider myself to be a very good skateboarder, but the difficulty when you're being pulled behind any car, when there's only a 20-ft. line, is that you can't see the potholes.

Casey Neistat

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. It is cool to see that the fashion world has really taken to 'Instagram,' but, again, it is one of the many examples of many communities, whether you are a chef, a skateboarder, a surfer, a skier.

Kevin Systrom

#21. I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.

Shaun White

#22. I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.

Shaun White

#23. I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.

Jackson Brundage

#24. If there is reincarnation, I would like to be born as Sonu Niigaam.

Sonu Nigam

#25. One father said that what helped him become more sensitive to his son's emotional needs was when he began to equate the boy's bruised, unhappy feelings with physical bruises.

Adele Faber

#26. I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

Salma Hayek

#27. Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

Martin Villeneuve

#28. You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!

Joe E. Lewis

#29. Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

Barbara Corcoran

#30. No point in playing if your goal is to lose.

Rachel Hawthorne