Top 60 Nyjah Huston Quotes

Being in the Olympics isn’t the chance for one of us to go out there and win the thing… It’s growing skateboarding, creating more opportunity for kids to be able to fulfill their dreams of being a pro-skater.

To be out there in the Olympics skating the board that’s actually my own and a company that me and my homies have started. It’s a special feeling and it’s only more motivation to go out there and kill it.

I’ve made money from a young age but it’s never taken away from my love of skateboarding. I don’t just do this for money.

Contest skating is about figuring out the hardest tricks you can do that you can also land every time. It doesn’t matter if it’s a kickflip back lip or a kickflip front board or a hardflip. Any trick you feel really confident in and you can land any time, those are the tricks you bring to the contest.

I had been skating basically since I could walk. I started on my knees and would cruise around the local skatepark until I got comfortable enough to stand up. As soon as I went down my first ramp, I was addicted.

I do try to floss everyday cause it’s obviously good for you and healthy.

I’m thankful to be a mixed racial person in skateboarding. I’m part Japanese too, so when I go over to Japan everyone loves me there, when I go somewhere where there are a lot of Black people they’ll love me there too.

People assume they know you but they don’t.

I only drink coffee when I’m actually feeling tired. I’ve never wanted to become dependent on it, to be one of those people where I wake up and have to have coffee.

Drawing from personal experience and also knowing that so many people, kids, are still living without sanitary water… makes you want to make it easier for them.

Stretching always helps me start my day in a good way.

Yeah, so my dad was a skater back in his teenage days, and he used to skate pools and bowls and stuff and vert ramps – and he was actually pretty good. But his parents were just never the most supportive of it.

If you feel like you’re wearing something that you’re stoked on, I feel like it actually makes you want to skate better.

I love competing. I take it really seriously.

When I was four years old, we lived in the Fiji islands, but I don’t remember much.

It’s hard for our sport to pass into the mainstream, to make it onto ‘SportsCenter.’

The important thing to me is being productive. It helps me feel good as a person, helps me feel strong, helps me feel like I’m doing something throughout my days.

I was too young to really remember it, but at one time, my family lived in Hawaii and Fiji because my parents wanted us to be exposed to different cultures and alternative lifestyles.

I won the biggest amateur contest when I was 10, and I was into X Games the next year. And then I was in a ‘Tony Hawk’ game the next year!

As long as you’re working hard for what you love doing, you’ll have a good chance of getting somewhere with it.

Power and strength are most important for my skating.

My parents bought an indoor skatepark in 2003 that was a perfect training facility for me.

Everyone deserves to have clean water.

I consider myself really lucky to have had such a good life.

It’s always sunny here in Cali, even in the winter.

It’s crazy to think that back when I was 11 years old I was skating X Games.

Skating and style just goes hand in hand, I think.

I was raised a vegan until I was a teenager.

I love skating in shorts, it’s really comfortable.

I was really shy because I didn’t have much of a social life.

My dad was really controlling and he did want me to skate every single day. I would say he did it in a little bit of a strict way, which probably wasn’t necessary because bottom line I loved skateboarding and that’s all I wanted to do anyway.

I wish I could skate every single day.

I’m the type of person who always has to be doing stuff. I have a hard time relaxing.

I’d say street skating is the most fun of the six skateboarding events for me personally. It’s also because you can do it anywhere. You don’t need a specific ramp or competition; you can just go shred anywhere around your hometown and have a blast with it. That’s the best part about street skating.

I like skating big stuff, and you need the power to get on those obstacles and take the impact coming off. You need the strength to take the hard falls.

Everybody remembers Tony Hawk’s 900 at X Games V in 1999. That was an iconic trick that went beyond the sport and still makes highlight reels.

What I wear – my pants, my shirt, my shoes, everything – has a lot to do with me being stoked on the way it looks when I’m looking down at my board, because obviously when you’re skating you’re looking at your feet the whole time.

Ethiopia is beautiful. The people are so positive.

I normally get up around 8:30. I’ll have a little something to eat. Just some avocado toast or some cereal or something. Or sometimes just a protein shake when I get up and then I’ll go in my gym.

I’m stoked that the Olympics finally put skateboarding in there. I was always a little confused about why it wasn’t in there in the first place considering that snowboarding and other similar sports were in the Olympics.

My oldest brother was two years older than me, and a really awesome skater.

That is the most fun part of skateboarding, the challenges. There are always new possibilities.

I have learned to spend money wisely.

My mom used to bake so many vegan goods when I was a kid, and I was always so hyped.

With the Olympics, you have to bring out all the best tricks to win.

Our father got us into skating and built us many ramps around our yard.

Honestly, I have the quickest metabolism ever, I can eat as much as I want and barely gain any weight. So I just try to eat as much as I can every day.

I love going to around the public parks and just skating around the kids and stuff with them and obviously going out with my friends and going out and hitting the streets and stuff.

As a street skater, I am always on the move and always looking for convenient ways to refuel.

I mean, really, skateboarding is just going out and having fun with your friends and filming cool tricks and challenging yourself and just really just having a good time. That’s what skateboarding really is.

Anything you think of that isn’t vegan, my mom would make vegan. When a lot of people think about eating vegan, they think of it as not being healthy because it’s hard to get protein. I think I managed to be even healthier than someone with a non-vegan diet.

Learning a new trick will just happen randomly when I’m skating and if I feel good doing it, I take it to a street spot. If I’m really confident in it I practice it a lot, so I can do it in a contest.

I feel like sometimes people see us as like robots and out there expecting to win every time. But, in reality, that’s not how it is, and it’s not that easy.

I remember when I went to the first Street League event in 2010 in Glendale, Arizona. I was only 15.

I’m one of the fortunate ones to be making a good living for myself off of being a professional skateboarder. But there’s hundreds and hundreds of pro skateboarders out there that are professional and they are so good at what they do. But… there’s just not that much money in skateboarding.

My parents always did things a little bit differently. My three brothers, my sister and I didn’t go to normal public schools – we were home-schooled. We didn’t play Little League or other team sports. We were a skateboarding family.

What can I say? I love waffles.

Even though skateboarding is considered a sport now and it is going to be in the Olympics for the first time, you always have to realize what got it there and what’s going to always be important.

I would say my dad wanted to keep his kids isolated from social influences like going to school and making friends.

After I win a contest the only thing I allow myself to do is buy a little bit of jewelry – but that’s only if I win. And that’s about it.