"If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership. To be honest, I think they need skateboarding more than we need them. Skateboarding's popularity is solidified for the most part in a lot of countries."

-- Tony Hawk

#Summer Quotes #Country Quotes #Winter Quotes

“God wasn't powerful because he was right. He was right because he was powerful.”
“I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.”
“It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”
“A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.”
“I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.”
“I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard.”
“Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.”
“Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.”

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