It’s like the mafia. Once you’re in – your in. There’s no getting out.
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
It’s all about where your mind’s at.
Kelly Slater
The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.
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
The best surfer out there is the one having the most fun.
Duke Kahanamoku
Out of water, I am nothing.
Duke Kahanamoku
Surfing’s one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what’s behind.
Laird Hamilton
The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.
Laird Hamilton
Wiping out is an underappreciated skill.
Laird Hamilton
I’m just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer.
Jack O’Neill
I took off on a wave, went down the side, popped out the other end, and went, shit, I’m still alive!
Greg Noll
It’s a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.
Jeff Clark
I surf to get tan.
Shane Dorian
If in doubt, paddle out.
Nat Young
It’s not tragic to die doing something you love.
Mark Foo
I’ve committed to surfing the rest of my life.
Lance Armstrong
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
Waves are not measured in feet and inches, they are measured in increments of fear.
Buzzy Trent
Surfing is very much like making love. It always feels good, no matter how many times you’ve done it.
Paul Strauch
Surfing is for life.
Bruce Jenkins
If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn’t even surf.
Clay Marzo
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
John Kabat-Zinn
One drop in is an accident, two is rude, three is a twatable offence.
Roger Sharp
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
Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave.
Paul Walker
One of the greatest things about the sport of surfing is that you need only three things: your body, a surfboard, and a wave.
Naima Green
I’ve tried body surfing. It’s nice.
Ziggy Marley
Surfing is the most blissful experience you can have on this planet, a taste of heaven.
John McCarthy
There is nothing, nothing, more sad than a surfer who used to surf.
Unknown author
I love surfing more than cricket. It’s more interesting and you meet great people.
Hansie Cronje
There’s nothing quite like surfing by yourself in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but unpredictable weather patterns, below deck accommodation, sea snakes, coral cuts and packs of reef sharks make it a trip for the committed seadog.
Mark Thornley
Surfing, alone among sports, generates laughter at its very suggestion, and this is because it turns not a skill into an art, but an inexplicable and useless urge into a vital way of life.
Matt Warshaw
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
Eddie would go.
Unknown author
If it swells, ride it!
Unknown author
I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea.
Captain James Cook
Surfing’s the source. Can change your life. Swear to god.
Patrick Swayze
Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.
Patrick Swayze
Charlie don’t surf.
Lt Col William Kilgore
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