Quotes About Recreation

Besides writing music and surfing, I like to simply chill with my friends. Watching movies and going out to eat are often my prime choices for a day off.

I grew up in Imperial Beach, surfing and going to the beach - my son plays baseball at the park.

It makes me a better person, surfing, I think. It's a great outlet.

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.

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot dangling.

I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling.

Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation.

One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'

Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.