Surfing Quotes

• 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
  • Experience
  • Learning
  • Awareness

• It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

  

  George Eads
  • Surfing

• There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Alone
  • Passion
  • Surfing

• I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.

  

  Alexander Ludwig
  • Home
  • Golf
  • Tennis

• To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Scary

• Surfing was something I always wanted to do.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • Surfing

• It took me a long time to adapt to the West Coast. I lived eight years in New York before California and might have gone back. Then I discovered surfing. It's the California equivalent of ice hockey, I guess. It gave me a real sense of place.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• I really think there's an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it's wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga.

  

  Beryl Bender Birch
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Evolution

• I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Could
  • Techniques
  • Atlanta

• Surfing and trail running chill me out. I like reading, too. And playing my guitar - I wish I were better.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
  • Running
  • Reading
  • Wish

• I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

  

  Carolyn Murphy
  • Hiking
  • Gardening
  • Hats

• Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Ideas

• I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Fall

• The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.

  

  Michelle Rodriguez
  • Culture
  • Embrace
  • Starting

• I think it's important to cross train. Surfing is a good cross training sport for your shoulders. I don't think I know of any other football player who does it, who can go and paddle out past the sets.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Past

• 'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Culture
  • Rock
  • Homeless

• There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.

  

  Kelsey Grammer
  • Surfing

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

  

  Scott Adams
  • Internet
  • Surfing
  • Copy

• Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

  

  Alec Soth
  • Real
  • Photography
  • Surfing

• I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Soul
  • Magic
  • Golf

• If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.

  

  Nicholas D. Woodman
  • Passion
  • Cameras
  • Concepts

• I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

  

  Henry Hopper
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Space

• You have to be very clear with yourself about how you're going to spend your time. When a child is at school or napping, you need to realize that this is your writing time and you don't spend it surfing the Internet or reading.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Writing
  • Children
  • School

• I think somebody like Wes Anderson has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I'm just in Hawaii and Malibu; it's just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Style
  • Surfing
  • Hawaii

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