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" As a professional skateboarder, I can't look at anyone getting hurt - it freaks me out. "

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" The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn't know who was ahead or if it was a close game. "

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" The serious professional skateboarder doesn't have a job. They get paid enough not to. "

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" Sometimes I'll be somewhere, and the cops will show up to kick me out and end up just asking for a photo. "

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" With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation. "

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" Justin Bieber, I love to death. He's such a cool, ridiculous, much crazier kid in real life - more than he's really allowed to be, because he's a Unicorn and very rare. "

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" My entire life is a single body of work. "

" 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. "

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" In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza. "

" I built a very methodical television show around my business. I learned how to use television as a platform to advertise products. I created a platform showcasing the stuff that I build. It's taking the integration model to another level. "

" '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? "

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