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

• 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

• Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Taken

• I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with Mexico, Bali, and nearly every island nation that gets waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But that's a relatively recent development in most places.

  

  William Finnegan
  • Country
  • Community
  • Ocean

• And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Internet
  • Surfing
  • Copy

• Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Best
  • Means
  • Won

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

  

  Kelly Slater
  • Surfing