As a professional skateboarder, I can't look at anyone getting hurt - it freaks me out.

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

The serious professional skateboarder doesn't have a job. They get paid enough not to.

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

Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.

I have a very big phone book and a very long reach around the world. And I think - I don't think, I know - that 95 percent of the people who I know who weren't born into success who have become successful and done things that are different and made a lot of money and had a lot of excitement in their life are people who never hear the word 'no.'

At some point in your life, you'll find yourself in a similar position: Surrounded by people who are smarter, faster, who have more experience and more money - and you'll just have to find a way. And you'll have to do it with passion.

There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.