Three most important things in life, surf, surf and surf. — Jack O'Neill
Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind. — Laird Hamilton
I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion. — Andy Irons
Everyday hit every wave, like I’m Hawaiian. I don’t surf the net, no I’ve never been on MySpace, too busy letting my voice vibrate, carving out my space in this world. — Jay-Z
I'll ride the wave, where it takes me! — Eddie Vedder
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
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. — Jon Kabat Zinn
The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird — Gerry Lopez
Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets. — Kelly Slater
I'm just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer. — Jack O'Neill
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. — Henry David Thoreau
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
Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way. — Bethany Hamilton
I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach. — Michael B. Jordan
Short Surf Quotes
I got started by couch surfing and being broke, homeless, without healthcare. — Tim Pool
It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out. — Kelly Slater
The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean. — Stephanie Gilmore
Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear. — Buzzy Trent
The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean. — Laird Hamilton
Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true. — Patrick Swayze
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore. — Florence Nightingale
Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you. — Bethany Hamilton
It's all about where your mind's at — Kelly Slater
There is not one right way to ride a wave. — Jamie O'Brien
Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf.
Learning To Surf Quotes
When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well. — Laird Hamilton
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
Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet. — Amy Poehler
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf! — Karlie Kloss
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
My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities. — Ryan Sheckler
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life. — Edward Norton
I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go. — Bertrand Piccard
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
Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf. — Dan Millman
Surfing The Internet Quotes
Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her laptop bag slung over her shoulder—ready for stabbing or surfing the Internet, whichever came first. — Rick Riordan
Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days. — Stephen Collins
Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet. — Mike Fitzpatrick
If you catch the wave right, you'll ride the surf well!
I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password. — George Harrison
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. — Chuck Palahniuk
When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run. — Katarina Witt
I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet! — Lee Ann Womack
And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. — Scott Adams
I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute. — Lisa Yuskavage
Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. — Tom Fasulo
Surfing The Web Quotes
Surf the Web is a happy coincidence. — Vinton Cerf
If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera. — Nick Woodman
I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown. — Aubrey Plaza
Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs. — Eric Topol
When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web. — Tom Brady
Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool. — Spider Robinson
There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web. — Frederick Busch
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida. — Don Winslow
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
Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging. — Julian Baggini
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
With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing. — Neil Young
We have the best surfing beaches in the world and they have the other ones, so we want to work together. — Nayib Bukele
I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy. — Michelle Rodriguez
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out. — Marc Newson
If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. — Ricky Williams
The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater. — Frederick Lenz
I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are. — Eddie Vedder
Look at it! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, man! Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave before you take me in. I mean, come on man, where I am I gonna go? Cliffs on both sides! I'm not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand! Come on, compadre. Come on! — Patrick Swayze
Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing. — Yvon Chouinard
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
I'm a good Canadian girl. I miss all that good stuff. I miss tobogganing and I miss snowboarding, but I've also learned to surf and I've become a water baby which I used to be relatively terrified of the water and I kayak all the time now and I'm able to run year round on the beach which you can't obviously do in Canada. — Evangeline Lilly
I can be a little bit outrageous. I can be a lot of things. I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, so I love to go out there and do kind of crazy stuff which is slightly outrageous, like bungee jumping, skydiving, surfing and that sort of stuff. But I also like to just chill with my friends and go and see movies and do normal things. — Orlando Bloom
For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years. When I started it was clay wheels and mostly home made decks. We were just trying to copy surfing. Everything about skateboarding had to do with surfing. It was all about fun and a way to surf when the waves were shitty. — Jay Adams
Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it really enjoyable to me is that every wave is different... there's a special, non-repetitive pleasure in it that never gets boring. — Otis Chandler
People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it. — Bethany Hamilton
The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm
the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me
in total freedom. — Scott Holman
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
Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling! — Gerry Lopez
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
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
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
For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf. — Max Dupain
I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snow boarding and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away. — Paul Walker
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