Vallely Quotes

#1. No one, it appears, took up his offer to commercialize his invention; like other inventions of his, it worked well for him, but mere mortals found the instructions too complicated.

Morton N. Cohen

#2. If I signed a contract that meant someone else wouldn't be playing.

Mike Vallely

#3. I strive to do my best every single time and I think that's something the skate community knows about me and appreciates.

Mike Vallely

#4. We want to invite the world to Make in India, make India as the base for manufacturing electronic goods.

Narendra Modi

#5. There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

Ralph Fiennes

#6. I grew up on the Bones Brigade as well. The very first skateboard video I saw was the Bones Brigade Video Show and I'd always valued the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta as the ultimate in skateboarding.

Mike Vallely

#7. Stay up... 'till you come up... when you come up stay up!

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#8. I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.

Mike Vallely

#9. I don't see masses, I don't see it like, oh there's hundreds of people here and I'm overwhelmed. I just try to think, well I could be a kid in that crowd, or my daughters could be in that crowd, and no one wants to feel like they're just part of the masses.

Mike Vallely

#10. He was just a star in my sky ... constant, familiar, bright, far above me

John Green

#11. I don't know much about sports.

Rene Russo

#12. There are many who do not like ESMA being a museum with tours for members of the public and foreign tourists; they want to knock it down and create a park with a golf course 'so that society can forget'.

Paul Vallely

#13. When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.

Mike Vallely

#14. Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.

Mike Vallely

#15. Killing people was easier when the only face I ever saw was Mother's back then, anyone else was the enemy and shooting at an outline in a scope wasn't any different than taking down a deer, just in a different shape.

Mindy McGinnis

#16. If someone told me I had to give back, or I'm supposed to give back, or I'm supposed to do these things, I would reject that. My actions are those of valuing and caring.

Mike Vallely

#17. I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.

Mike Vallely

#18. What I do is I take action because I value the position I have, the career I have, the life I live, the people I interact with, my fanbase, my friends, however you want to say that. I value those relationships and I use the opportunities they present to me.

Mike Vallely

#19. I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

Mike Vallely

#20. I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

Mike Vallely

#21. I bought a Ferrari ... and then sold it after a couple of months.

Andy Murray

#22. I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.

Mike Vallely

#23. There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV or the internet, and there's ways of throwing jabs and being inconsiderate and not having your manners.

Mike Vallely

#24. Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#25. We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

Mike Vallely

#26. I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

Mike Vallely

#27. Kids at skate parks will step up and challenge me to a game of Skate, but I'm over that, I really don't care. I'm all about participating, and I'm all about being a part of this scene, but there's certain vibes I just don't get along with.

Mike Vallely

#28. Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

#29. Through getting sponsored and becoming a part of the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta, doors were being opened. The entire culture was shifting from ramps to street, and I sort of became a poster child for that.

Mike Vallely

#30. As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too-a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people-so that those
who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#31. Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.

Mike Vallely

#32. I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them.

Mike Vallely

#33. I understand that these people are all there to see me ride, that that's why they're in the building, and whether I have ten people, or a thousand people come out to see me, they still came out to see me, and I take that to heart.

Mike Vallely

#34. I would dream of being a pro skater, but I never dreamt I'd be discovered by Lance Mountain and Stacey Peralta, who were two major heroes of mine, and be asked to skate for that team and be a part of their company.

Mike Vallely