Nyjah Huston

Everyone deserves to have clean water.

Ethiopia is beautiful. The people are so positive.

To be out there in the Olympics skating the board that's actually my own and a company that me and my homies have started. It's a special feeling and it's only more motivation to go out there and kill it.

When it comes to skateboards, it's hard because it's really a personal preference. Some people will like different shapes and sizes than others.

I do try to floss everyday cause it's obviously good for you and healthy.

I literally used to skate every single day. Like, there was not a day I didn't skate.

I wish I could skate every single day.

I like skating big stuff, and you need the power to get on those obstacles and take the impact coming off. You need the strength to take the hard falls.

Power and strength are most important for my skating.

A lot of the time, you know you can do a move; it's just really hard to get that first try out of the way.

Everything from my friends and family to my career have gone really well, and the next step in life is to do your best to help other people in every way possible.

Drawing from personal experience and also knowing that so many people, kids, are still living without sanitary water... makes you want to make it easier for them.

I consider myself really lucky to have had such a good life.

When I was 13 years old, my family and I lived on a farm in Puerto Rico that didn't have clean, running water all the time.

I definitely learned a lot at a very young age.

A lot of hip-hop sounds the same... same thing with skateboarding. But if you see someone coming out here doing some tricks no one's done before that's really cool.

I don't remember much about the first time I stepped onto a board but I remember absolutely loving it, since then it's literally the only thing I wanted to do.

Whatever the competition, I'm always there to do my best.

I don't know if any of us imagined we would ever be up here getting ready to skate in the Olympics. But we've all been working for this from a young age, even before it was possible.

I think that's one of the best things about skateboarding. We're all competitors out there, but no one dislikes each other.