Quotes About Passion

Surfing is my religion, if I have one.

Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.

Surfing is something I just crave.

I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

Surfing - I have to go surfing.

In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always got really into whatever it was I was doing.

There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.

Rock climbing and surfing are two of my favorite things in life.

I started surfing at 10.

I started filmmaking when I started surfing, so the two things have been with me since I was 12 years old, so it's sort of been in my bones to make surf movies. I guess every now and then I just crave to do it again.

Mike Clark, who's a really amazing surfer, got me back into surfing. I surfed a lot from '82 to '86, and then I kind of started slacking.

Surfing and music have always been two separate sides of my life. I'm quite a fun-loving person most of the time, but I feel like I always get the serious side out when I'm playing music, and then I have fun the rest of the time when I get in the sea.

I hope to be able to keep surfing as long as I'm alive.

I'm not an adrenaline junkie; I won't jump out of aeroplanes and I'm afraid of horses. I just love surfing.

It's what I love to do and I'll never stop surfing.

Surfing is my life. It's my passion.

After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.

I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

The orthopaedic surgeon said that if ever I had hip or groin pain, I should rest until the pain went. However, resting is not part of a dancer's life - so I just danced through the pain.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.