Kelly Slater Quotes

I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.

Kelly Slater

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• I have been surfing since I was six years old.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Years
  • Old
  • Surfing

• It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • People
  • Man
  • Daughter

• Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Great
  • Surfing
  • Kiteboarding

• I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Go
  • Surfing
  • Too Much

• I'm super excited about gaming always. That's the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I'm surfing if I'm not already playing a game at night.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Game
  • Night
  • Surfing

• Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Done
  • Happy

• I suck at surfing. I can't pull myself up.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Up
  • Surfing

• To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Energy
  • Waiting

• I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success.

  

  Anthony Goldbloom
  • Success
  • Interesting
  • Mountain

• I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing - that's what I'm trying to say.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Surfing

• With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Growing
  • Crazy
  • Horse

• People go surfing before work and paddling afterward. My husband is from Wisconsin, and he goes to work in his Hawaiian shirt.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • People
  • Work
  • Husband

• There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.

  

  Kelly Slater
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• I feel like an ambassador for surfing at this point. I'm happy to go and play that role and share that where I can in certain areas of the mainstream media that doesn't get the surfing attention.

  

  Kelly Slater
  • Happy
  • Attention
  • Surfing

• 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
  • World
  • Experience
  • Rest

• The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

  

  Paul Walker
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Whether it's in America, Quebec, or France, if I can tell a story that takes me out of my comfort zone, then I'm surfing.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • America
  • Surfing

• The experience of seeing a surf movie in the 1970s, as a teenager, and the energy in those theatres, was amazing. It was the only way to see people surfing. These guys would go out and make these surf movies and bring them to four-wall theatres. It was an incredible experience that I'll never forget.

  

  Chris Carter
  • People
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I've never been to college, and I think about that. But I kept putting it off, and I am also thinking about having a child, and that's really important. Also, I want to do a lot of traveling and surfing - two of my hobbies.

  

  Jorja Fox
  • Surfing
  • Traveling
  • Hobbies

• In 2012, Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency after a four-year, constitutionally imposed hiatus. It wasn't the smoothest of transitions. To his surprise, in the run-up to his inauguration, protesters filled the streets of Moscow and other major cities to denounce his comeback.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Up
  • Comeback

• Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Like
  • Married

• I am one of four, so I have two sisters and a brother, and I'm the youngest.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Brother

• ...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.

  

  Gertrude Bell
  • Life
  • Atmosphere
  • Holy

• I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.

  

  Kelly Slater
  • Surfing