“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.” FallProgressPrideBoardsCeilingsBlocked Author:Rodney Mullen
“I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that had to be measured. It was completely opposite of what I saw in so many sports. It was creative. And to this day, that's what I love, that's always kept me back to it because it's endless creation.” IndividualSportsPerfectCreativeSawsTeamStyleCreationOppositesEndlessThis DayCaptainsSkateboarding Author:Rodney Mullen
“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.” IfsKnowsMatterValuableContributionTrophies Author:Rodney Mullen
“I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.” WantTryingI CanNightWaitingSleepWake UpSomething NewCan't SleepI Can't Sleep Author:Rodney Mullen
“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.” PeopleTryingLooksEnoughSeemsPayAttentionToo MuchFocusFiguresPay AttentionSurroundRestlessWhat You LoveBounce Author:Rodney Mullen
“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.” KnowsLooksSelfStoriesRememberReadingBreakFireIndividualityPoisonIsolationPushingWowDeaf Author:Rodney Mullen
“The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.” CommunityDegreesIndividualityProportion Author:Rodney Mullen
“There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.” ValuesCreatingSakeCreating SomethingIntrinsic Value Author:Rodney Mullen
“You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.” HouseCantGuarding Author:Rodney Mullen
“What got me excited to do Grima Wormtongue is when I was young I went through a period in boarding school were I was picked on alot. And there is something about Grima, he has been picked on when he was a kid, he (Grima) is so distrustful, he is so easily corrupted, He is so ugly, and he wants somebody, he wants to love somebody, and he can't, because nobody will have him.” WantHas BeensKidsSchoolYoungPeriodsExcitedUgly Author:Brad Dourif