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I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.
- Tony Hawk
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#Never
#Passion
#Professional
#Want
I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.
- Tony Hawk
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#City
#Edge
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#Will
Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money, and make royalties from signature products - that's how I came to buy a house when I was a senior in high school.
- Tony Hawk
#High School
#House
#Money
#School
#Win
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.
- Tony Hawk
#Community
#Done
#Famous
#Rich
#Skating
Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate... He's legit.
- Tony Hawk
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#Creator
#He
#Seen
#Who
When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's like sitting in an escrow meeting when all you want to do is buy a house, and you're signing 50 pieces of paper, but you have no idea what they're talking about.
- Tony Hawk
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#House
#People
#Start
#Talking
My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.
- Tony Hawk
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#Money
#Real
#True
#Work
If you have a game with your name on it, you have to learn how to play.
- Tony Hawk
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#How
#Name
#Play
#Your
There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.
- Tony Hawk
#I Am
#Living
#Me
#People
#Skating
I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and I were the only skaters in our high school. He runs my foundation now.
- Tony Hawk
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#High
#Parents
#School
#Three
The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.
- Tony Hawk
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#Dad
#Doing
#Lesson
#Support
When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.
- Tony Hawk
#Achievement
#First
#Personal
#Something
When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussion, and I knocked my teeth out. That was the first time that I got seriously injured, and I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, and my parents briefly doubted.
- Tony Hawk
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#Parents
#Time
#Up
I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.
- Tony Hawk
#Media
#Possible
#Skateboarding
#Through
When you break your pelvis, you can't do a whole lot. It took me about six weeks to be able to get out of bed. Anything you do that shakes your body is painful all over, so you can't cough, you can't sneeze, and going to the bathroom is impossible.
- Tony Hawk
#Bathroom
#Bed
#Body
#Impossible
#Me
I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.
- Tony Hawk
#Believe
#I Believe That
#People
#Pride
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.
- Tony Hawk
#Am
#I Am
#Quit
#Skating
#Until
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
- Tony Hawk
#Action
#Art
#Lifestyle
#Skateboarding
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.
- Tony Hawk
#Art
#Entertainment
#Fashion
#Feel
#Lifestyle
#Music
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.
- Tony Hawk
#Computers
#Good Student
#Good
#Student
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.
- Tony Hawk
#Doing
#Famous
#Happiness
#Love
#Rich
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