Surfing Quotes

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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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  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

  Ocean, Wave Of Life, Peaceful

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Jun 20, 2014

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

  Laird Hamilton

  Ocean, Would Be, World

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

  Laird Hamilton

  Sports, Riding The Wave, Looks

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

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• Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.

  Buzzy Trent

  Feet, Sailing, Nautical

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  I don't need easy, I just need possible.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Positivity

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• Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.

  Gerry Lopez

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.

  Alex Grey

  Space, Creative, Honor

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• 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

  Sports, Appreciation, Time

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• 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

  Expression, Special, Different

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• For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just a few moments on waves larger than life. We do this because we know there is still something greater than all of us. Something that inspires us spiritually. We start going down hill, when we stop taking risks.

  Laird Hamilton

  Inspire, Risk, Larger Than Life

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• In my lifetime, I've met a lot of people who never rode a wave, but we share the same consciousness. Surfing is a kind of a state of mind... I mean, it's a feeling that people have about their life that really, in a way, kind of makes them a surfer.

  Gerry Lopez

  Mean, People, Feelings

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• Surfing is one of the most joyful pursuits a human can take up. But there's no joy in a deadzone. If you've ever surfed in turds and medical waste you don't want to repeat the experience.

  Tim Winton

  Joy, Want, Waste

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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  If in doubt, paddle out.

  Nat Young

  Doubt, Ifs

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• 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

  Beach, Snowboarding, Land

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• Surfing frees everything up. It's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress free, and that's what surfing is all about.

  Rell Sunn

  Stress, Soul, Should

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• One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.

  Gerry Lopez

  Sports, Learning, Sea

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• Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

  Sean Connery

  Environment, Backgrounds

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• It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.

  Kelly Slater

  Mafia, Surf, Surfer

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• There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules.

  Lee Clow

  Ocean, Independence, Bunch

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• I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

  Lance Armstrong

  Surf, Committed

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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, Helping

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

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• 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

  Teacher, Children, Home

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• Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

  Jolene Blalock

  Littles, Sticks, Surfer

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• When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Pain, Home

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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