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Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

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

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Basketball was my whole life until I was 20 years old. All I knew was basketball. Then came golf, and I thought that's all I wanted to do then.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.