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" I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience. "

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

" I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long. "

" 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. "

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

" '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? "

" Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am. "

" 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. "

" As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work. "

" 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. "

" At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves. "

" Business is my passion. "

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

" I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be. "

" I don't think I've ever had a vacation, to be quite honest with you. "

" The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world. "

" Skateboarding for me is a whole lot different for me than before the TV fame, if you will, because going out in the street is a little bit different. "

" Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness - of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there. "

" The mainstream thinks that every skateboarder aspires to be in the X Games. "

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

" I was raised by some very grounded, hardworking, Middle America parents. "

" 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. "

" For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding. "

" Anything is possible if you're willing to work for it. "

" Once you get a trick on film, it's there forever. "

" 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. "

" I try to seize every opportunity I can. "

" You knew LeBron James was going to be LeBron James when he was a sophomore. "

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

" Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. "