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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, everybody in the world is skateboarding on.

- Rob Dyrdek

Country, Other, Everybody, How Much Money

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 a place that's free, open and legal... for those that are technical, to do really hard stuff, and for those who are learning, to just have fun.

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Idea, Good Place, Technical, Skateboard

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

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Getting, Skateboarder, Hurt

I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.

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Rain, High, Altitude, Forests

'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 for my first skate crew - who knew it would turn into such a mega brand?

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Needed, Becoming, Mega, Animated

You knew LeBron James was going to be LeBron James when he was a sophomore.

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Going, Knew, LeBron, Sophomore

I don't think I've ever had a vacation, to be quite honest with you.

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Think, Honest, Ever, Vacation

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

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World, Relevant, Our World, Contests

The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn't know who was ahead or if it was a close game.

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Game, Ahead, About, Contests

At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.

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Now, Against, Most, Contests

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 be in an advertisement that will be shown around the world.

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Weekends, Cops, Use, Fathom

DC and Monster have always supported my vision for street skateboarding, from building skate plazas throughout the world to now creating the first-ever professional skateboarding league.

- Rob Dyrdek

Building, Always, League, Skate

One of the best things to me about 'Skate' is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.

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Education, Game, Play, Skate

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

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World, Plaza, Built, Skate

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 those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.

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Doing, About, Evolved, Entrepreneur

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

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Ohio, Meant, Which, Meant To Be

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.

- Rob Dyrdek

Love, Death, Very, Justin

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

- Rob Dyrdek

Seeing, Success Is, Half, Fearlessness

There's nothing more ridiculous than seeing yourself in a video game.

- Rob Dyrdek

Game, Seeing, Ridiculous, Video Game

What's skateable is limitless by design.

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Design, Limitless

If my parents really understood how much I've learned that I could never learn in school, they'd be very proud. Instead, I'm still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop.

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Dancing, Pants, Very, Understood

With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.

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Generation, Factory, Tony, Represent

Without a doubt, Dana White is my biggest influence.

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Doubt, White, Biggest, Biggest Influence

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's taking the integration model to another level.

- Rob Dyrdek

Another, Very, Use, Methodical

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

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Money, World, Biggest, Premier

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

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Never, Bigger, Streets, Skateboarding

Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.

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I Am, Given, Created, Skateboarding

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

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Away, Contest, Having, Skateboarding

Skateboarding for me is a whole lot different for me than before the TV fame, if you will, because going out in the street is a little bit different.

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Will, Before, TV, Skateboarding

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

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Street, Big, Environments, Skateboarding

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