I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long.
Anything is possible if you're willing to work for it.
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.
Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.
In skateboarding, you're never bigger than the streets.
No matter what I do, how much money I make, where I live, or what kind of car I drive, the stuff I skateboard on is the same stuff that every other kid in L.A., every kid in the country, everybody in the world is skateboarding on.
Without a doubt, Dana White is my biggest influence.
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.
You knew LeBron James was going to be LeBron James when he was a sophomore.
'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?
At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.
Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness - of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.
No one can fathom that the top 200 pro street skaters run from cops on the weekends and use a generator and lights to light up a handrail at 2 in the morning to get a trick that's going to be in an advertisement that will be shown around the world.
What's skateable is limitless by design.
With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.
There is nothing like watching a crazy video for the very first time.
In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.
I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.
California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.
The evolution of the plaza always came from the idea of just a really good place to ride a skateboard that you could ride at anytime, and that's what the foundation always stands for - being a place that's free, open and legal... for those that are technical, to do really hard stuff, and for those who are learning, to just have fun.
