Quotes About Surfing

I love playing video games. I love listening to music. Just surfing the web. Facebook, Twitter, keeping in touch with people from home.

I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.

I'd be in elementary school all week, and then on the weekend, my mom would take us to Kauai or to the Big Island or to California for a contest. That was really fun.

Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish.

With my experience with Metallica, I've already surfed Portugal, Morocco, and all over Australia with Kirk.

I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.

I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.

I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!

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.

That's what I think people sense when they get hooked by surfing - hooked by their relationship with the ocean. All of a sudden, they're part of something that's bigger than them.

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

Change is always inevitable, because nothing stays still forever. You can't stop the Change, but you can surely do your best to manage it most effectively. When you can't stop the rising waves, you must strive to be the best at surfing. You'll then enjoy riding the waves, instead of being drowned by them. The same strategy applies to riding the waves of challenges, especially when the tides get high in the ocean of life.

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.

Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf

She got a mentor. It was 2008, all these other much bigger firms were crashing down around her, and she was brought to the point where she didn't think she could take it anymore, so she sought out a mentor who gave her great advice: He told her to go surfing.

1978 Jurgen Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to him, although Mike Horgan and I were jumping in 1974 and 1975. There was a new enthusiasm for jumping and we were all trying to outdo each other by jumping higher and higher. The problem was that ... the riders flew off in mid-air because there was no way to keep the board with you-and

I have to at least get a couple weekends in where I can just be on Santa Monica beach or Malibu and just ride the waves.

Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me.'

The nice thing about working in surf films so long is becoming part of the surf tribe. Anywhere I go where there are surfers, I get welcomed pretty easily.

It took me a long time to adapt to the West Coast. I lived eight years in New York before California and might have gone back. Then I discovered surfing. It's the California equivalent of ice hockey, I guess. It gave me a real sense of place.

I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.

I'm a pretty good snowboarder but a terrible surfer.

When you come out of the ocean after surfing all day, loco moco is the best thing you ever tasted.

I was teaching, which I didn't love or hate; it was just OK. I was OK with it, and the hours were good for surfing or whatever. All not good reasons to go into teaching.