Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

When kids come up to me and say. 'I want to be like you,' it fires me up. It's pretty cool.

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world!

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

I've reached my goal with snowboarding.

Trick names are so ridiculous!