Tony Hawk: The Man With The $1.4 Billion Name! Burnout, Obsession & Regrets

I'm either gonna make this or get taken away on a stretch. Changed my life completely. Tony, hold on. Are you prepared for that?

How could you prepare for anything like that? Tony Hawk began riding a skateboard when he was nine years old, and when he turned 16, he was the best skateboarder in the whole wide world. Being the outcast and the outcast activity, I got picked on, I got bullied. Even when I turned pro, I would leave high school for a big skate event, I'm signing autographs, and then I would come back and be a ghost in the hallways again. I just wanted to see skateboarding get more popular. But I got famous by accident. Suddenly I was chosen ambassador. I was making income. I owned a house in my last year of high school. So I was doing talk shows and I was doing big appearances. My video game was a big hit. How much revenue? A billion dollars. Wow. The trajectory just seemed like it was never gonna end, and then it dropped very quickly.

I was so hyper fixated on my skating. I didn't really work on my humanity. I was a machine and I'd go and do the event and win the trophy and go home. It didn't allow me to be myself very much. Did you lose people? Yeah.

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