Rob Dyrdek

“'Wild Grinders' becoming an animated series, and airing on Nicktoons is another one of my boyhood dreams come true. I came up with the name when I was eleven years old, when I needed a name...”

“I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.”

“Without a doubt, Dana White is my biggest influence.”

“As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all...”

“Justin Bieber, I love to death. He's such a cool, ridiculous, much crazier kid in real life - more than he's really allowed to be, because he's a Unicorn and very rare.”

“Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness - of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.”

“No one can fathom that the top 200 pro street skaters run from cops on the weekends and use a generator and lights to light up a handrail at 2 in the morning to get a trick that's going to b...”

“I spend 2 hours a week in an infrared sauna.”

“I built a very methodical television show around my business. I learned how to use television as a platform to advertise products. I created a platform showcasing the stuff that I build. It'...”

“The evolution of the plaza always came from the idea of just a really good place to ride a skateboard that you could ride at anytime, and that's what the foundation always stands for - being...”

“In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.”

“MTV has a been a great partner over the years. I'm truly grateful for the platform they've provided for me to create and refine compelling, entertaining media at the highest level.”

“No matter what I do, how much money I make, where I live, or what kind of car I drive, the stuff I skateboard on is the same stuff that every other kid in L.A., every kid in the country, eve...”

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

“The mainstream thinks that every skateboarder aspires to be in the X Games.”

“I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.”

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

“At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.”