Craig Kelly Quotes

For Oakley, I`m basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it`s both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on.

I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.

I don`t ride ski areas all that much, and I don`t do contests and I don`t go in snowboard shops and I rarely read the snowboard magazines.

I`ve always been into powder, that`s what I like riding, and now you`ve got to go farther to get it.

So I`ve been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I`m glad I`m getting pushed out there farther.

My experience and what I do in snowboarding is really quite independent of the industry and the more independent it is, the more pure and better I feel about snowboarding.

Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since `87. I`ve been riding for both of them.

I didn`t really get that into backcountry riding until about eight or 10 years ago and the main reason for it is the ski areas are more crowded.