"When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding."

-- Mike Vallely

#Skateboarding Quotes #Major Change Quotes #Majors Quotes

“It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.”
“The more you learn about the real vastness of space and the real challenges of space travel, the more completely you appreciate the necessity of taking very good care of this world and being good stewards of it.”
“Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.”
“In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.”
“Besides my strokes improving, I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the game. The travel's not so tough any more, I'm learning my way around the circuit. I'm learning to cope and I'm having fun. That's the key -- the tennis is fun and I'm really enjoying it.”
“I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest daysâ€”those very days in which I was naming myselfâ€”I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.”
“Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.”
“I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.”

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