Nick Carroll quotes

If you're going to make a big wave, you have to be totally unified with everything that's happening... Maybe in the moment of having to know everything all at once you burst through the barriers of trying to put things in order.
-- Nick Carroll

#Sports #Order #Trying

Surfing is all about living in the moment. When you walk out on the Sydney Cricket Ground to play cricket you're intensely aware of the history of the sport; you're playing on this historic ground surrounded by pictures of the legends. With surfing, you just dive into the water and paddle out and catch waves.
-- Nick Carroll

#Sports #Play #Water

I know when I've been surfing I've got a sense of level of calmness to me, and when I hit the ocean, even in its presence, at the shore, and especially by a powerful surf, I've been put in my place as a person.
-- Nick Carroll

#Sports #Powerful #Ocean

That's what I think people sense when they get hooked by surfing - hooked by their relationship with the ocean. All of a sudden, they're part of something that's bigger than them.
-- Nick Carroll

#Sports #Ocean #Thinking

You're actually inside the surfboard... you're inside the landscape around you and the ocean is surging, you get totally inside the moment and it's so intense that time disappears, you disappear.
-- Nick Carroll

#Sports #Ocean #Landscape

Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.

If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.

It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.

Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.