Surfing famous quotes
05-17-2025
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It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.
-- Alana Blanchard -
Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
-- Alex Grey -
I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.
-- Andy Irons -
I love the ocean and have a passion for surfing, even though I'm not very good at it. I like getting out there and paddling around.
-- AnnaSophia Robb -
Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.
-- AnnaSophia Robb -
I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.
-- Antony Garrett Lisi -
If I would of visited this site when I was conquering, I would have been known as 'Atilla the Fun.'
-- Attila the Hun -
God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love and it’s a part of me,
-- Bethany Hamilton -
I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.
-- Brian May -
All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.
-- Brody Jenner -
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
-- Caroline Corr -
I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
-- Carolyn Murphy -
Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours o the morning when he would go surfing. He thought it might be fun to have me come watch. "Fun for who?" I wanted to ask. i had never asked him to come to Happy Hour and watch me drink.
-- Chelsea Handler -
But I came from a conservative Republican background.
-- Christopher Meloni -
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn't even surf.
-- Clay Marzo -
There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.
-- Corbin Bernsen -
Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.
-- Crystal Gayle -
Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave.
-- Delta Goodrem -
Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.
-- Dennis Quaid -
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.
-- Don Winslow -
The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.
-- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz -
Everything that mattered, I learned from surfing.
-- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz -
Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.
-- Ed Seykota -
It was like a big family, since so many of us brought our kids. We all went surfing. It was so relaxed and easy.
-- Elle Macpherson -
I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse?
-- Emo Philips -
The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
-- Ernest Shackleton -
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
-- Etgar Keret -
It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.
-- Eve Babitz -
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
-- Fay Wray -
I'm super excited about gaming always. That's the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I'm surfing if I'm not already playing a game at night.
-- Felicia Day -
It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.
-- George Eads -
One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.
-- Gerry Lopez -
Surfing is a deeply wonderful thing – anytime, anywhere and any way
-- Gerry Lopez -
Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!
-- Gerry Lopez -
There is wisdom in waves. Some surfers see it right away, others never do. To find success in surfing, we must learn to be in harmony with nature. This will bring a sense of peace. By sharing this peace, and contributing to other people's happiness, we can find the true meaning of life. Keep surfing . . .
-- Gerry Lopez -
I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked around the Bay there, and somebody grabbed a board and went surfing, and it looked so good the rest of us guys said, 'Hey, we got to get in on this.'
-- Greg Noll -
It took me longer to get through this site, than to get outside at Waimea.
-- Greg Noll -
I love surfing more than cricket. It's more interesting and you meet great people.
-- Hansie Cronje -
Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life. The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and weddings and hilarious jokes - fills a minute portion of an adult lifespan. The rest of life is the paddling: work, paying bills, flossing, getting sick, dying.
-- Jaimal Yogis -
I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea.
-- James Cook -
I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.
-- Jason Mraz -
It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.
-- Jeff Clark -
A movie is kind of like being the captain of a ship, which is nice, but when I perform by myself it's just surfing on the water and nobody really knows what happens.
-- Jerry Seinfeld -
In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.
-- Jess Weixler -
I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.
-- Jesse Ventura -
It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.
-- Joel Parkinson -
An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
-- John Ashcroft -
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
-- John Irving -
The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.
-- John Slattery -
Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.
-- Jolene Blalock -
There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.
-- Jon Foreman -
...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is...
-- Jorma Kaukonen -
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
-- Josh McDowell -
I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.
-- Julia Mancuso -
I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.
-- Julian Schnabel -
If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.
-- Kajol -
I love fishing and surfing, and I work out every day.
-- Karl Urban -
Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
-- Kary Mullis -
When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
-- Katarina Witt -
It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.
-- Kelly Slater -
Well I'm always working on constantly everything. I never take the approach that I'm doing as well as I possibly can... I always think there's more and I think if you don't have that, you are not driven to be better.
-- Kelly Slater -
I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.
-- Kelly Slater -
I've always thought surfing is a reflection of who you are.
-- Kelly Slater -
J-Bay displays the best of people’s surfing.
-- Kelly Slater -
I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.
-- Kelly Slater -
Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.
-- Kelly Slater -
I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.
-- Kiana Tom -
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
-- Kim Jong Il -
The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.
-- Laird Hamilton -
Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.
-- Laird Hamilton -
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 -
I haven`t prepared as much as I would like to but it will be fun to get out there again. I have nothing left to prove in surfing but still have the desire to keep going.
-- Layne Beachley -
There’s an independence to surfing, it’s just you and the ocean. There aren’t a bunch of rules,
-- Lee Clow -
I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.
-- Lee Pace -
I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.
-- Leslie Moonves -
If you look at the media coverage and surfing magazines, the one thing that really stands out is how hard it is to find a photo of a girl in a magazine unless it's an ad. It's kind of strange, still to this day. You see these great looking girls surfing so well that are amazingly talented... They are finally the total package.
-- Lisa Andersen -
Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.
-- Lori Loughlin -
Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.
-- Lucille Roybal-Allard -
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
-- Marc Newson
