Greg Noll Quotes

• 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

  Guy, Surfing, Boards

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• I didn't want to be like a punch-drunk fighter, going around and reliving the big moment.

  Greg Noll

  Drunk, Want, Fighter

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• We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women. I saw these guys going up and down the coast on surf trips, drinking and bagging girls, and all I could think of was 'What a neat life!'

  Greg Noll

  Girl, Drinking, Thinking

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.17, North Atlantic Books

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• People turned around and came back to watch. An enormous crowd formed. Ampol Oil took films. When we left Australia, we also left our boards for the Aussies. Those films were shown all over the country to different clubs. The films and our boards became the basis for the modern surfboard movement in Australia.

  Greg Noll

  Country, Oil, Australia

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• After becoming established as a surfboard manufacturer and surf film producer whose films were shown on TV, all of a sudden all the teachers and counselors who wanted nothing to do with my ass during school were wanting to kiss it. They'd be interviewed by a newspaper of magazine and their tone would change. 'Oh yes, I knew Greg Noll. He was in my class. Fine, upstanding young man.' What bullshit.

  Greg Noll

  Teacher, School, Kissing

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• With some guys, drugs became a way of life. They went through tremendous personality changes, or they died. Drugs didn't do them any good. In the same way, at certain times in my life, alcohol didn't do me any good. A lot of kids today seem to be taking themselves, their health and their education more seriously, and that's good.

  Greg Noll

  Kids, Personality, Guy

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.115, North Atlantic Books

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• It took me longer to get through this site, than to get outside at Waimea.

  Greg Noll

  Surfing, Site

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