Surfing Quotes - Page 5

• Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.

  Robert Englund

  Sports, Real, Loner

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

  Florence Welch

  Dream, Growing Up, People

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• The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Nature, Ocean

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• The aloha spirit is real simple. You give and you give and you give . . . and you give from here (the heart), until you have nothing else to give.

  Rell Sunn

  Real, Heart, Simple

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

  Patrick Swayze

  Swear To God, Changing Your Life, Surfer

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• It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.

  Jeff Clark

  Surfer, Culmination, Maverick

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

  Patrick Swayze

  Point Break, Causes, Surfer

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

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• It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

  George Eads

  Looks, Easy, Hard

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• The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Culture, Embrace, Starting

  "Blue Crush Interview: Michelle Rodriguez and Sanoe Lake". Interview with Steve Horn, www.ign.com. August 15, 2002.

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• Thank God for a few free waves.

  Miki Dora

  Thank God, Surfer, Wave

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• I've always thought surfing is a reflection of who you are.

  Kelly Slater

  Reflection, Who You Are

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• Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

  Laird Hamilton

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

  John Millington Synge

  Journey, Hiking, Islands

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

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• Out of water, I am nothing.

  Duke Kahanamoku

  Water

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• Surfing is attitude dancing.

  Gerry Lopez

  Attitude, Dancing

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• Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

  John Fogerty

  Done, Magazines, Venture

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• Waves are toys from God.

  Clay Marzo

  Toys, Wave

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• 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

  Golf, Magic, Taste

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• Since social media has become so big, body image has taken a downward spiral. Especially in surfing, because we're in bikinis all day, we're really critiqued. After a competition, social media will just be talking about who looked better in a bikini instead of who surfed better. It's not even about the results anymore, so much is body. And that's really frustrating at times.

  Coco Ho

  Taken, Media, Talking

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• I've been surfing almost as long as I've been playing music.

  Jackson Guthy

  Long, Playing Music

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Hands, Perfect

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• Sometimes things just happen. Sometimes surfing this bank from Snapper to Kirra, sometimes you don't even think what you're doing but you do it anyway ... You get to the end of a wave and go, what did I do? Sometimes you go into a totally different state of mind.

  Mick Fanning

  Sports, Thinking, Mind

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• I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Book, Two, Sensual

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• Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

  John M. Ford

  Games, Creating, Different

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• I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

  Shannon Miller

  School, Law, Practice

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