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" '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? "

Rob Dyrdek

Brand

Wild

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I operate best on big vision and creative detail. "

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

" Without a doubt, Dana White is my biggest influence. "

" As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them. "

" 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. "

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

" There is nothing like watching a crazy video for the very first time. "

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Crazy

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

" If my parents really understood how much I've learned that I could never learn in school, they'd be very proud. Instead, I'm still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop. "

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

" What's skateable is limitless by design. "

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" 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 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. "

Rob Dyrdek

Street

Skateboarding

" 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. "

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

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

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

" California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is. "

" Business is my passion. "

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" 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. "

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

" I try to seize every opportunity I can. "

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

" 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. "