Tony Hawk quotes

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games. It used to just be Nintendo and PlayStation, and now it's all kind of devices. So you've got to learn to adapt what you know from the technology into those areas... I've been wanting to do a mobile game for a long time.

The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.