Octopus Skateboarding

I was bitten by an octopus. - Ted Cruz

Life is a lot like skateboarding. - Lil Wayne

Some people like to eat octopus. Liberals, mostly. - Russell Baker

In skateboarding, you're never bigger than the streets. - Rob Dyrdek

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? - Norton Juster

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media. - Tony Hawk

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

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding. - Demetri Martin

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

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding. - Rob Dyrdek

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world. - Rob Dyrdek

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

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work. - Rob Dyrdek

Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn. - D.J. Cotrona

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding. - Shaun White

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. - Dodie Smith

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus. - Sy Montgomery

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard. - Scott Caan

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek

I had fried octopus last night. You have to be really quiet when you eat it. Otherwise, it emits a cloud of black smoke and falls on the floor. - Steven Wright

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things. - Shaun White

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. - H. Jackson Brown

Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are. - Sy Montgomery

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt. - Bam Margera