- Craig Stecyk - Zephyr Co-Founder: 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.
- Craig Stecyk - Zephyr Co-Founder: 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.
- 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?
- Wentzle Ruml: This is concrete warfare we're talking about... if you're going to ride you gotta get on that shit.
- 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.
- Glen E. Friedman: There were no precedents, they set precedents everyday when they went out and rode.
- Narrator: Attendance at the once-magnificent Pacific Ocean Park plummeted, and in 1967, it closed and soon thereafter became a no-man's land... a place where pyromaniacs, junkies, artists and surfers could excel in symbiotic disharmony.
- Tom Sims: [at their first competition] They were unconventional and they didn't care if they got judged well.
- Steve Olson: If a person has a big ego, you'd better be able to back it, and tony could back his ego.