Top 95 Skate Quotes

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We’d skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.

I skate all the time, but it’s silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

Right when I was lying on the ground and saw my legs, I didn’t think first, ‘I’m going to die.’ I was thinking, ‘I’m not going to run again. I can’t play basketball. I’m not going to skate.’

I still recreationally skate at the roller rink with all the children.

I still feel like we’re a skate brand – it doesn’t mean we can’t present our stuff well. It doesn’t mean that when you come in, everything has to be messy.

I’m going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

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.

I’ve always had a fascination with skate culture.

Hockey wasn’t invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith’s deeply personal ‘Puckstruck,’ sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

I don’t want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That’s all I wanted every year.

It is more important for us to get exposed so we can learn from it and build than skate through all these tournaments and never have any issues and then feel it in the World Cup.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people’s desire for me to do well.

I was a skateboarder when I was little; I still skateboard. I teach my kids how to skate.

My whole life has been the skate life. I don’t really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.

I don’t even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing – that’s what I do. Any contest, it doesn’t really take much. Just get me on the course and I’ll get going.

I love to roller skate.

I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

There’s this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people – and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.

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.

I’m a show pony, and I don’t get to skate with girls doing triple Axels every single day. I skate with little babies who are working on their single Axels while trying not to hit them on the ice.

Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust.

It’s really ironic that I won, because that’s not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

The way we look at manufacturing is this: the U.S.’s strategy should be to skate where the puck is going, not where it is.

I skate six days a week, three sessions a day, and I go to the gym three times a week. I lift weights, do some ab work and whatever my trainer tells me to do. I take Saturdays off.

You never know when you’re gonna come across a sick skate spot, or a skate park you wanna stop at, so as long as I’m not injured, I’m always gonna have my board on me, and my skate shoes, and whatever I need to go out there and get a little session in.

I guess I’d be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there’s not a lot of ice.

The first year I started hockey, I didn’t know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

I’d like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

I don’t know if any of us imagined we would ever be up here getting ready to skate in the Olympics. But we’ve all been working for this from a young age, even before it was possible.

When you’ve got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.

I was the black kid in school who’d skate and wrestle, who was really into outer space and botany and kung fu and hip-hop. I was into everything.

A lot of people dismiss what we do. They think, ‘Well, it’s skate, so it’s got to be, like, big baggy pants, cap backwards, big chain’… They don’t understand that just because skating is the culture we’re working in, it doesn’t mean that we can’t make good things.

You know what’s good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don’t have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I’ve been the one skating.

I used to skate around the rink with my mom, and we used to race each other until I started getting way better. Then she hung up her skates and resorted to playing my music at the rink.

I didn’t play basketball because I’d learned how to ice skate.

Our four defensemen all had flaws: one couldn’t skate backwards, one couldn’t turn to his left, one couldn’t turn to his right, and the fourth couldn’t pass the puck accurately to our blue line. Somebody had to clear the loose pucks, so I started doing it myself.

I wish I could skate every single day.

I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn’t skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

I’m trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we’re riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

I’m going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.

Just getting young kids excited about hockey, then they’ll want to skate, they’ll want to start joining junior leagues, they’ll want to play in high school, etc., so we’re trying to expand at all levels. That’s good for the sport, and it’s good for the Ducks long term.

Leadership is one of sports’ intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, ‘Follow me.’

I’ve learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I’m still the underdog.

I’ll skate on concrete if I have to. I’m not worried about how fast the ice is. I’m worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

I was a serious competitive figure skater and still ice-skate as much as I can. Anyway, I once brought a date to the rink to have him experience what I was into. So all is going fine, and then – bam! – he bit it extremely hard! Skate time was over. His bruises were scary. I felt so bad.

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don’t even understand the rules, which doesn’t stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.

A wave isn’t like a skate ramp or mountain; everything’s moving around and you have to time how to move along with it. That’s easier with a slow wave.

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

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

Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it’s amazing.

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can’t be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

I don’t need a good skate to make everything OK.

Honestly, the best skater that I’ve seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate… He’s legit.

I skate a lot with my shirt off, so working out has always been important to me. I almost have as much fun working out as I do skating. And seeing your body change, and seeing yourself get bigger and more toned and cut, makes a big difference in how you feel about yourself.