When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.

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.

Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.

I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together,

I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves." Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion?

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.

If this enormous pressure didn't exist, I wouldn't have been elected. It would have been one of the usual candidates.

Idea is to constantly raise the bar, push the boundaries. Fitness is ultimately a journey, not a destination.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.