27 Quotes by Rodney Mullen

You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.

I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.

Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-isolation and that’s where he became himself. And to me that was, wow. Don’t let anything poison your individuality. Be away, break away and look in not outward.

There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.

It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

Who are you? What is your distinct contribution? That is so valuable whether it gets you anything or not. Trophies? Doesn't matter. If you know you did it, that's what keeps you going, you know? Success is illusive.

Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.