If you're going off a 90-foot jump, you can't say: 'Oh, I don't want to do this now.' You're going no matter what.

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.

The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.

Straight As might improve chances for a job but talent improves chances of a promotion.

Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.