I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.

Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

The world is just waiting to be skated.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.

I live to ride, and ride to live.

No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I can have fun, I can do whatever I want on my skateboard.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

It was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.

I don't think a lot of people know that I can sing. It's not common knowledge.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

Leadership is all about raising the aspirations of people.

Passion and strife bow down the mind