Ryan Sheckler (Ryan Allen Sheckler) Quotes

I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.

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• Definitely before hanging out with a chick, I make sure everything is to my liking.

  

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  • Chicks

• I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.

  

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  • Hurt
  • Break
  • Bones

• My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.

  

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  • Opportunity
  • Passion
  • Path

• This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.

  

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  • Energy
  • Feelings
  • Week

• For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.

  

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  • Different
  • Stills
  • Lifestyle

• If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

  

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  • Car
  • Race
  • Active

• Lakers are my boys! I'm 100 percent the biggest Kobe fan on the planet. I text him after every game to tell him what's up.

  

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  • Games
  • Fans
  • Boys

• My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.

  

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  • Remember
  • Skateboarding
  • Skates

• I am a skateboarder, and to stay fit for skating I have to stay away from a lot of things. I go to parties and that's fun for me, but between skating and lifting and everything, I know what I have to do the next day, so I'm very conscious about my schedule and keeping it.

  

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  • Fun
  • Party
  • Conscious

• I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.

  

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  • Needs
  • Courses
  • Competing

• I really started getting my body ready when I was a freshman in high school. I had just been skating so much, and just started getting so annoyed with leg hair and arm hair, because I was falling so much when I was learning. So I would get scabs on my legs, and the hair would get caught in it. It just became a nuisance. And from that point on, I continued to shave my arms and legs and tried to stay sleek.

  

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  • School
  • Hair
  • Body

• I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.

  

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  • Running
  • Everyday
  • Week

• Sometimes it gets a little hectic on trips because we're skating all day long, and all you want to do is eat dinner and go to sleep. So sometimes it gets a little long for my liking, but the second I get home, it's straight to the shower to fix it all up, and we're good to go.

  

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  • Long
  • Home
  • Sleep

• Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.

  

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  • Kids
  • Realizing
  • Hopefully

• If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored.

  

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  • Fun
  • Purpose
  • Sponsors

• I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

  

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  • Past
  • Regret
  • Steps

• If you feel comfortable by shaving your body, then shave your body. I feel comfortable keeping my body ready by shaving. I don't think it's unmanly to shave; I think that if you can get past that, you're fine.

  

  Ryan Sheckler
  • Past
  • Body
  • Feels

• I started getting tattoos, and the hair would grow back out and grow over a nice piece of artwork that I really wanted to show, and it just became one of those things. I can't stand the hair on my body. I just wanted it gone. It's just a better feeling for me.

  

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  • Nice
  • Hair
  • Feelings

• I just personally really enjoy having a clean body. I shower twice a day. I just like feeling clean and feeling smooth.

  

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  • Feelings
  • Body
  • Enjoy

• I'm going to capitalize on everything I can.

  

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  • Capitalize

• It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

  

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  • Different
  • Mean
  • Moving

• I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

  

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  • School
  • Morning
  • Skating

• I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.

  

  Ryan Sheckler
  • Motivated
  • Beats
  • Skates

• The world is just waiting to be skated.

  

  Ryan Sheckler
  • World
  • Waiting