Surfer Quotes

• As soon as I stood up on that hard surfboard, I went so fast and it was such an incredible feeling that I was obsessed, and I fell in love with it, so I never stopped. So, that's how it all started, being around people at the beach and other surfers and then finally getting an actual surf board, and falling in love with that feeling.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Beach, Falling In Love, People

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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• It's all about where your mind's at

  Kelly Slater

  Surfing, Mind, Surf

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• Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

  Laird Hamilton

  Sports, Surfing, Riding The Wave

  "Laird Hamilton: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 23, 2011.

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• 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

  Sports, Joy, Challenges

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• A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Buddhism, Cutting

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  I don't need easy, I just need possible.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Positivity

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• It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.

  Kelly Slater

  Surfing, Mafia, Surf

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• Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.

  Buzzy Trent

  Feet, Surfing, Sailing

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• If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn't even surf.

  Clay Marzo

  Surfing, Barrels, Ifs

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• Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

  Patrick Swayze

  Point Break, Surfing, Causes

  "Fictional character: Bodhi". "Point Break", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Surfing's the source. Can change your life. Swear to god

  Patrick Swayze

  Swear To God, Surfing, Changing Your Life

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• 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

  Morning, Surfing, World

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• Thank God for a few free waves.

  Miki Dora

  Surfing, Thank God, Wave

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• I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.

  James Cook

  Men, Sea, Surfing

  "The Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World".

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• It's not tragic to die doing something you love.

  Mark Foo

  Surfing, Tragic, Something You Love

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• 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

  Surfing, Trying, Riding The Wave

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• 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

  Ocean, Surfing, Get Better

  Intensity Magazine Interview, www.bodybuilding.com. July 29, 2004.

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• It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Italian, Hair, Long

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• 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

  Fun, Surfing, Desire

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• 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

  Surfing, Littles, Sticks

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• I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

  Ray Davies

  Imagery

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• Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Love Is, Wave, Bigger

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• Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Compassion, Giving, Perspective

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• I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.

  Mike Lookinland

  Children, Real, Different

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• I don’t know why terrible things happen to us sometimes.  But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.

  Carrie Underwood

  Believe, Sometimes, Terrible

  "Fictional character: Sarah Hill". "Soul Surfer", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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