Nyjah Huston Quotes

Honestly so much money gets taken for taxes from contest winnings that you have to be smart with it. People think that because I won 200 grand, I actually got 200 grand, but a big chunk of that gets taken out. You have to be very smart with your money.

I don’t like eggs because I couldn’t get used to it after not growing up with them.

With the Olympics, you have to bring out all the best tricks to win.

I’m thankful to be a mixed racial person in skateboarding. I’m part Japanese too, so when I go over to Japan everyone loves me there, when I go somewhere where there are a lot of Black people they’ll love me there too.

After I win a contest the only thing I allow myself to do is buy a little bit of jewelry – but that’s only if I win. And that’s about it.

I do try to floss everyday cause it’s obviously good for you and healthy.

I wish I could skate every single day.

As I get older in my skateboarding career, I would like to get more into the business side of things – starting my own company or investing.

I would say my dad wanted to keep his kids isolated from social influences like going to school and making friends.

Everything from my friends and family to my career have gone really well, and the next step in life is to do your best to help other people in every way possible.

As long as you’re working hard for what you love doing, you’ll have a good chance of getting somewhere with it.

I literally used to skate every single day. Like, there was not a day I didn’t skate.

That is the most fun part of skateboarding, the challenges. There are always new possibilities.

Skateboarding is something that I’ve loved ever since I started when I was five years old.

I mean, really, skateboarding is just going out and having fun with your friends and filming cool tricks and challenging yourself and just really just having a good time. That’s what skateboarding really is.

When I was four years old, we lived in the Fiji islands, but I don’t remember much.

I love going to around the public parks and just skating around the kids and stuff with them and obviously going out with my friends and going out and hitting the streets and stuff.

L.A. is the best city to skateboard in.

My parents bought a motorhome and would take us to skate competitions throughout California when I was only seven or eight years old.

I literally started skating handrails when I was seven years old, with no helmet on, so I was just bred into this type of skating where you have to be kind of fearless and just go for it.

I don’t like to think of myself as famous because us skaters, we think of ourselves as normal people. But I really do have to be more careful about what I do and the way I set examples for everybody.

My mom used to bake so many vegan goods when I was a kid, and I was always so hyped.

Drawing from personal experience and also knowing that so many people, kids, are still living without sanitary water… makes you want to make it easier for them.

Nike is the prime shoe sponsor in sports in general but definitely in skateboarding. I couldn’t think of a better company I’d rather ride for. I’ve always thought they were such an amazing team. They’ve always had the best gears on their team; their product is insanely good.

Whatever the competition, I’m always there to do my best.

That’s the fun part about it compared to most other sports out there. There are so many ways to have fun with it and so many different things and ways to skate and ways to be creative and always switch it up and challenge yourself.

I was really shy because I didn’t have much of a social life.

What can I say? I love waffles.

To be out there in the Olympics skating the board that’s actually my own and a company that me and my homies have started. It’s a special feeling and it’s only more motivation to go out there and kill it.

I’m trying to think about my future and be smart in the way I’m using my money and saving my money and making money outside of skateboarding.

I only drink coffee when I’m actually feeling tired. I’ve never wanted to become dependent on it, to be one of those people where I wake up and have to have coffee.

My success as a young athlete contributed to major disagreements between my parents and my mom had to make the ultimate decision to leave.

I think that’s one of the best things about skateboarding. We’re all competitors out there, but no one dislikes each other.

My parents were childhood sweethearts that are now divorced as of 2010. My mother is Kelle Huston, who is also my current manager, and father is Adeyemi Huston, who is not involved in my life.

I normally get up around 8:30. I’ll have a little something to eat. Just some avocado toast or some cereal or something. Or sometimes just a protein shake when I get up and then I’ll go in my gym.

You never know when you’re gonna come across a sick skate spot, or a skate park you wanna stop at, so as long as I’m not injured, I’m always gonna have my board on me, and my skate shoes, and whatever I need to go out there and get a little session in.

I grew up watching PRod and Chris Cole. To be able to skate with them in competition is an honor.

Yeah, so my dad was a skater back in his teenage days, and he used to skate pools and bowls and stuff and vert ramps – and he was actually pretty good. But his parents were just never the most supportive of it.

Contest skating is about figuring out the hardest tricks you can do that you can also land every time. It doesn’t matter if it’s a kickflip back lip or a kickflip front board or a hardflip. Any trick you feel really confident in and you can land any time, those are the tricks you bring to the contest.

As a street skater, I am always on the move and always looking for convenient ways to refuel.

I’ve made money from a young age but it’s never taken away from my love of skateboarding. I don’t just do this for money.

The important thing to me is being productive. It helps me feel good as a person, helps me feel strong, helps me feel like I’m doing something throughout my days.

Learning a new trick will just happen randomly when I’m skating and if I feel good doing it, I take it to a street spot. If I’m really confident in it I practice it a lot, so I can do it in a contest.

It’s always sunny here in Cali, even in the winter.

I like skating big stuff, and you need the power to get on those obstacles and take the impact coming off. You need the strength to take the hard falls.

I’m the type of person who always has to be doing stuff. I have a hard time relaxing.

Honestly, I have the quickest metabolism ever, I can eat as much as I want and barely gain any weight. So I just try to eat as much as I can every day.

I’m one of the fortunate ones to be making a good living for myself off of being a professional skateboarder. But there’s hundreds and hundreds of pro skateboarders out there that are professional and they are so good at what they do. But… there’s just not that much money in skateboarding.

When it comes to skateboards, it’s hard because it’s really a personal preference. Some people will like different shapes and sizes than others.

Ethiopia is beautiful. The people are so positive.

I’ve always been relatively small in frame.

I consider myself really lucky to have had such a good life.

We literally see things so differently, all the architecture and stuff. That’s the cool part about skateboarding. We’re out there skating stuff that’s not meant to be skated.

I’d say street skating is the most fun of the six skateboarding events for me personally. It’s also because you can do it anywhere. You don’t need a specific ramp or competition; you can just go shred anywhere around your hometown and have a blast with it. That’s the best part about street skating.

I’m stoked that the Olympics finally put skateboarding in there. I was always a little confused about why it wasn’t in there in the first place considering that snowboarding and other similar sports were in the Olympics.

Andrew Reynolds, Chris Cole – all those guys are the people I grew up watching and they’re some of the gnarly gnarliest dudes out there.

Everybody remembers Tony Hawk‘s 900 at X Games V in 1999. That was an iconic trick that went beyond the sport and still makes highlight reels.

My dad was really controlling and he did want me to skate every single day. I would say he did it in a little bit of a strict way, which probably wasn’t necessary because bottom line I loved skateboarding and that’s all I wanted to do anyway.

I’m not too much of a morning person.

I hope that skateboarding gets a lot of new fans out there and that people start to fall in love with it and get to realize that it’s a really fun thing to do and a really fun thing to watch, especially as far as the competition goes.