Surf Quotes

• It's hard for me to describe the joy I felt after I stood up and rode wave in for the first time after the attack. I was incredibly thankful and happy inside. The tiny bit of doubt that would sometimes tell me you'll never surf again was gone in one wave.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, Joy, Doubt

  Bethany Hamilton (2004). “Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

  John Ashcroft

  Fbi Agents, People, Surfing

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• I got to learn to surf.

  Sheryl Crow

  Surfing

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• Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.

  Crystal Gayle

  Fun, Thinking, Surfing

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• You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. And that's why I put Don in several of my movies.

  Tim Conway

  Surfing, Watches, Tvs

  Interview with Claudia Perry, www.aislesay.com.

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• Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Travel, Strong

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Love, Beach, Fall

  1968 'The Great American Frustration', in the Saturday Review, 9 Jul.

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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

  Surfing, Done, Magazines

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• 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

  Giving, Heaven, Surfing

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• The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

  Dick Dale

  Kings, Kids, Guitar

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• Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

  Alan Alda

  Dog, Reality, Advice

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  You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Thank God for a few free waves.

  Miki Dora

  Surfing, Thank God, Surfer

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  The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.

  Laird Hamilton

  Ocean, Surfing, Would Be

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• I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.

  Kelly Slater

  Thinking, Surfing, Surfer

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• Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

  Laird Hamilton

  Sports, Surfing, Riding The Wave

  "Laird Hamilton: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 23, 2011.

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• 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

  Ocean, Surfing, Get Better

  Intensity Magazine Interview, www.bodybuilding.com. July 29, 2004.

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• It's all about where your mind's at

  Kelly Slater

  Surfing, Mind, Surfer

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• 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

  Sports, Joy, Challenges

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• I'm just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer.

  Jack O'Neill

  Surfing, Surfer, Wanted

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• It's not tragic to die doing something you love.

  Mark Foo

  Surfing, Surfer, Tragic

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

  Patrick Swayze

  Swear To God, Surfing, Changing Your Life

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• I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.

  James Cook

  Men, Sea, Surfing

  "The Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World".

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• There is not one right way to ride a wave.

  Jamie O'Brien

  Surfing, Way, Wave

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

  Jeff Clark

  Surfing, Surfer, Culmination

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