Laird Hamilton famous quotes

06-17-2025

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Ocean #Surfing #Would Be
Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Exercise #Land #Challenges
If you can look at one of these waves and you don't believe that there's something greater than we are, then you've got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very long time.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Believe #Long #Tree
If you just get out of your own way... It is amazing what will come to you.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Way
Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Inspirational #Two #Enemy
Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!
-- Laird Hamilton

#Insperational #Half #Afraid Of Death
People don't want to do new things if they think they're going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you've never done in order to be the best you can be.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Fall #Thinking #Order
We're all equal before a wave.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Surfing #Wave #Equal
I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Fear #Scare #Better Person
Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Sports #Surfing #Looks
I don't want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Adventure #Want
We are our own worst inhibitors
-- Laird Hamilton

#Worst
When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Mistake #Ocean #Golf
The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Morning #Rip #Ideas
The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Training #Machines #Weight
Wiping out is an underappreciated skill.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Skills #Surfing #Wiping Out
For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just a few moments on waves larger than life. We do this because we know there is still something greater than all of us. Something that inspires us spiritually. We start going down hill, when we stop taking risks.
-- Laird Hamilton

#Inspire #Surfing #Risk

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