Top 101 Surf Quotes

I could probably live in London if you had better surf.

I have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.

I used to go to surf camp in the summers, and I remember going to the beach and thinking my style was so different from all of the other kids.

We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things.

Every part of me is a surfer. I love surfing, and I love the waves that I surf. So that’s the thing that I get excited about most: What kind of waves am I going to be able to surf? Am I going to be surfing alone, or will we be surfing waves that no one’s surfed before? Second to that is photography.

Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.

I’m just a glutton for spas and messages. And I love to surf and hike.

I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.

In the on-demand environment, you need love, not like. There’s no lead in. You’re not going to surf channels and hit it. People have to really want that show.

People laughed at me for setting up a surf shop.

I’m not a runner. I do not like running. I love to swim. I love to surf. I do not like to run.

When I was sixteen I was terrified and I vowed never to surf waves over ten feet tall.

I surf more now for other people than myself. I feel a lot of support from people wanting me to do well, and I feed off that. I can send a positive message to people from what I do.

For me, I like to have mystery in the surf films.

I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.

We didn’t have much money and my mom scrounged up $15 and bought us a surf board at a yard sale.

Paddleboarding is what happens when you want to kayak on a surfboard or surf a kayak: You stand atop a board paddling yourself around. It’s a leisurely good time.

I think being a good dad is on the list of things to do. But, I will always ski, climb, surf, and be out in the mountains and oceans. It’s who I am. My goal is to just keep doing it all and enjoying it.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

I don’t surf the web very much.

I love the influence of surf culture on fashion in L.A.

I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there.

Our project goal was to push the boundaries of VR technology to show what a surf trip feels like from the first-person perspective. I’m excited to share this. It’s pretty incredible knowing my mom can now experience riding a 20-foot wave.

I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.

‘Never Have Your Dog Stuffed’ is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

The beauty of my job is I do all different kinds of film directing, not just surf films anymore. And I do stuff from commercials to short films to working on feature films, and none of it is based from where I live. It’s all based elsewhere, so I can live anywhere and commute to where I need to go.

I feel like surf films are something I go back to for some balance – to reset myself as a filmmaker. They’re something I’ll always gravitate towards.

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

I need to surf – surf and yoga. Whenever I’m in L.A., I go down to San Diego to surf for the weekend, and I always come back perfect.

The surfers’ code is that you surf your wave and let the world discuss it as you move on to the next one.

You have to go into every event with 100 percent confidence and just surf your best because everyone there is there to win, and no one is going to give you the heat. You have to win by a mile to really make a heat.

The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school’s fishing team.

As I’d go out learning to surf, I’d feel the power of waves coming over my body. It’s like you’re with God.

I try to kind of surf the waves as they come and stay loose so that if anything does throw me off balance, I’m kind of floppy enough to roll with it.

I just want to be able surf everything – from big waves to small waves.

For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.

When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there’s no pressure to come up with a hit single.

Being able to surf in Tahiti and places like Brazil was unreal.

Making surf films for a living isn’t my business anymore, so it’s really more of a way to get creative and have a lot of fun with it.

I met Xavier Rudd at a surf festival in England.

The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

When the surf is really good, it’s hard for me to concentrate on work. So I really have to watch when and where I surf – I won’t get anything done if I get the fever. Then it’s like I come into work and I’m wet and waterlogged and ready for lunch.

I lived for big waves. It’s where I felt comfortable and I could surf with ease. With smaller waves, it didn’t feel as natural.

I definitely tried to skateboard in middle school, and being from San Diego, surf and skate culture is a big, prevalent thing. But I was not that good – I was kind of a chubby kid and didn’t totally master skating.

I surf online if I want some new combinations of workouts, and include them in my routine.

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.

I’ve been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.

Growing up, we visited Devon and Cornwall where I learnt to surf and had my first horse riding lesson. We stayed in caravan parks and I have fond memories of Paignton and Newquay.

I surf; I skateboard. I’m from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. And to be honest with you, I never really thought of myself as one.

An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in the surf at night!

I’m a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord – and how to surf!

I like to be close to water and the ocean, particularly. I love to get out and body surf. I like mountain biking, too.

The older I get, the more I surf and do more stretches to get ready for the rock show.

I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.

I started filmmaking when I started surfing, so the two things have been with me since I was 12 years old, so it’s sort of been in my bones to make surf movies. I guess every now and then I just crave to do it again.

I love physical sunblocks with zinc. When I used to surf, I’d sometimes tuck a bottle of sunscreen into my wet suit sleeve – when you’re in the water having a great time, you’re not thinking about running out to put on more sunblock.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

I was playing surf music with my band when a girlfriend of mine who had come from Los Angeles took me to a James Brown concert. That show really changed my whole outlook and thought processes, especially about music and different cultures.

I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus… we all have little Macs actually, there’s four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!

Lauryn Hill quietly released ‘Lose Myself’ as part of the ‘Surf’s Up’ motion picture soundtrack – shocking, I know. It’s not only one of the best summer tracks you’ll add to your catalogue: it’s also one of the most honest and heartfelt songs she’s has ever written.

I got to learn to surf.

When I was injured after ‘Kill Bill’ I had a year where I not just couldn’t make any money but I couldn’t swim, I couldn’t surf, I could hardly run, which is insane. I couldn’t do gymnastics, martial arts, I could barely crawl on all fours. That was devastating to me.

I surf a lot.

I’m not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you’ll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain’t going to happen.

Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.

That’s pretty much all I do – skate, surf, and jam.

I’m a culture person when I’m working, so my downtime is beach time: sand, surf and a barbecue.

Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean.

I like slightly obscure places, where the waves may not be world class, but you can tie some culture in with your surf trip.

In the beginning of my career, I loved the fear because if I was afraid, then I was going to get the rush. Your endorphins get released when you’re afraid. So whenever I would surf, I would be looking for the rush.

I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It’s what all my friends did – I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years.

Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.

Comic-Con is interesting because there’s so much going on at once, it’s literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds.

Sometimes in the morning, when it’s a good surf, I go out there, and I don’t feel like it’s a bad world.

Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar.

I’ve worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a ‘sandwich artist’ at Subway.

Now I know that if I surf without expectations and have a map for making my passion my life’s plan, I’m always in the present and smiling.

Surf films should be completely different from a webisode. They should give the viewer different feelings and emotions.

I’m quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.

While ‘The Endless Summer’ poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images.

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It’s a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

I’m at the beach all the time. I surf. I fish. I dive. These things on Instagram are really my life with my buddies doing my normal day-to-day stuff. I happen to be shirtless a lot.

I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

I made surf movies for 20 years, exclusively. And it’s incredible, and I feel blessed to be able to do that and have that long of a run.

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

I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.

My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don’t see that changing. When I’m not skating, I love to surf. I’m open to the new experiences and opportunities.

I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you’re born in Hawaii, you surf. If you’re born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you’re born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.

I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that’s an important part of life.

Well I’m a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I’m an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn’t give me much free time to surf these days.

To acknowledge that the biggest wave in the world might be a shore break off a little Portuguese town no one has ever heard of flies in the face of what passes for reason in the surf world.

I am terrified of sharks, so I don’t surf!

I love to surf. Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world, and the most consistent as well. That’s always fun.

I hate staying in resorts. When I go on holiday, I like to stay in crappy places with great surf.

People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured – and it’s time for consumers’ protections to keep pace.

My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven’t started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.

I ski, I surf, I scuba dive… any sport that starts with an ‘s.’