Ryan Sheckler Quotes

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

I just want to keep things going. I just love testing myself.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

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

I'll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies.

I shave my body probably once a week, maybe twice a week on the arms, just to keep it fresh.

I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.'

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

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

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

I live to ride, and ride to live.

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

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.

I'm going to capitalize on everything I can.

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.

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.

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

I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever.

I don't know if I was ever called out, but I definitely have been told my chest hair gets super long. I don't like it at all, so I definitely shave my chest a bunch. I have a really nice, huge eagle on my whole chest, with the words "Strength" and "Honor" and "Sanctimony" around it, so I like to keep that clean and clear.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

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.