Words matter. These are the best Rob Dyrdek Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you’re at, but the future of who’s going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.
As I’ve evolved, I’m capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it’s more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.
At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.
California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it’s where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.
I operate best on big vision and creative detail.
My entire life is a single body of work.
I’ve got some alien blood in me.
I try to seize every opportunity I can.
For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.
With ‘Fantasy Factory,’ I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.
The mainstream thinks that every skateboarder aspires to be in the X Games.
Once you get a trick on film, it’s there forever.
I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.
As a professional skateboarder, I can’t look at anyone getting hurt – it freaks me out.
DC and Monster have always supported my vision for street skateboarding, from building skate plazas throughout the world to now creating the first-ever professional skateboarding league.
Skateboarding for me is a whole lot different for me than before the TV fame, if you will, because going out in the street is a little bit different.
The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they’re not relevant in our world.
I built a very methodical television show around my business. I learned how to use television as a platform to advertise products. I created a platform showcasing the stuff that I build. It’s taking the integration model to another level.
‘Rob & Big’ was a buddy comedy show.
Without a doubt, Dana White is my biggest influence.
I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.
Business is my passion.
You knew LeBron James was going to be LeBron James when he was a sophomore.
I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long.
I can’t watch myself on TV.
One of the best things to me about ‘Skate’ is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.
If my parents really understood how much I’ve learned that I could never learn in school, they’d be very proud. Instead, I’m still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop.
The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn’t know who was ahead or if it was a close game.
‘Wild Grinders’ becoming an animated series, and airing on Nicktoons is another one of my boyhood dreams come true. I came up with the name when I was eleven years old, when I needed a name for my first skate crew – who knew it would turn into such a mega brand?
I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.
