Dogtown and Z-Boys

Jay Adams:
Once pool riding came in, that was like all we wanted to do.

Bob Biniak:
Jay would be making these goofy faces at old ladies on the bus.

Wentzle Ruml:
This is concrete warfare we're talking about... if you're going to ride you gotta get on that sh*t.

Wentzle Ruml:
You come off with a heavy grind and your bros are hootin'.

Wentzle Ruml:
On one hand it's kinda sad that we were all bought out. On the other hand, what does a kid do when you put a candy bar in front of him?

Shogo Kubo:
We were treated like kings at every place that we went to.

Jay Adams:
I missed a lot of good times, doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. There are certain mistakes I'd like to change, but I'm not going to trip on it to hard.

Tony Alva:
My goal was, I wanted to be the best in the world.

Allen Sarlo:
We were all hungry for recognition, so we all put out maximum effort.

Tom Sims:
[at their first competition] They were unconventional and they didn't care if they got judged well.

Stacy Peralta:
I wanted to get someone out of this, this was my ticket.

Stacy Peralta:
Jay should've had it all, and it makes me so sad that he didn't.

Steve Olson:
If a person has a big ego, you'd better be able to back it, and tony could back his ego.

Jay Adams:
Once pool riding came in y'know, that's like all we wanted to do.

Glen E. Friedman:
There were no precedents, they set precedents everyday when they went out and rode.

Himself (Zephyr co-founder; writer:
Two hundred years of American technology had unwittingly created a massive cement playground of unlimited potential. but it was the minds of 11 year olds that could see that potential.

Skip Engblom:
Children took the ruins of the 20th century and made art out of it.

Himself (Zephyr co-founder; writer:
Skaters by their very nature are urban guerrillas: they make everyday use of the useless artifacts of the technological burden, and employ the handiwork of the government/corporate structure in a thousand ways that the original architects could never dream of.