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

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

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • Sports
  • Surfing

• When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Song

• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Kind
  • Young

• For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Kids

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

  

  Kelly Slater
  • Surfing