Top 171 Surfing Quotes

I love fishing and surfing, and I work out every day.

Surfing is a life path. You have to really commit… You have to let go and have faith that it’s gonna work out when you take off.

When I’m channel surfing, and ‘Silence of the Lambs’ comes on, I have trouble turning it off. I wouldn’t say that about ‘Beautiful Mind.’ It’s a good movie, but I’m much more in awe of what Jonathan Demme did with ‘Silence of the Lambs.’

My parents had bought a video camera for us to film Christmases and other family events. I took it down to the beach, set up a tripod, and I would grab two other friends, and we’d take turns filming and surfing. Then, at the end of the day, I’d go home and I’d make a video for everybody to watch.

Surfing and music have always been two separate sides of my life. I’m quite a fun-loving person most of the time, but I feel like I always get the serious side out when I’m playing music, and then I have fun the rest of the time when I get in the sea.

Everything we do in the digital realm – from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call – creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it – or will be soon enough.

Before I started surfing, I don’t even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

I’ve always had creative freedom. Instrumental rock wasn’t really a genre, but the success of ‘Surfing With the Alien’ legitimized my approach.

Surfing is incredible. It’s both meditative and physical. I think it was my way into California.

Me and Jeffrey Wright were hanging out a lot. We go surfing a fair bit when he’s on the West Coast. He’s a legend.

The good news is that the credibility of the Net is already a subject of much research and discussion and there is a serious effort to go beyond surfing tools and lists of ‘best’ and ‘useful’ sites.

On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you’re looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.

I’ve been wearing Vans since I was a little kid. I wear them on stage, and I grew up skateboarding and surfing.

It’s funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it – I just thought it was normal.

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

My cousin knew a manager in the model agency, He offered me a shoot for a Korean brand called Kai-aakmann, and it was a good pay. I was working at a shop selling surfing items in Busan, but I quit the job and came to Seoul for a better future.

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.

‘Proximity’ features four legends and four rising stars who each bring their own athleticism, thoughts, and experiences in this behind-the-scenes look at modern surfing.

Indonesia has beautiful hikes, surfing, and private beaches. It’s pretty incredible.

I’ve been surfing since I was a kid.

I’m a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

Surfing is something I just crave.

Going to contests back to back, World Tour and Primes, I’ve noticed a lot more things with my surfing that could be improved for my heats to improve. Staying focused throughout all of those events for months at a time is hard to adjust to but definitely fun.

I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I’m not an expert by any means, but it’s so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.

‘Hollywood Don’t Surf!’ is really about how Hollywood’s superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that.

When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that’s what really now has led me in big part to GoPro.

When I’m not acting, I’m at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing.

I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.

For some reason surfing… I’m not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn’t seem as great to me.

In England, it’s usually cold. So surfing is more of an adventure where you’re floating around in a big, dark, stormy sea rather than the California notion of girls in bikinis on beaches. It’s really going into the fray. I like it because it gives you the extra time and space you need to think.

I spend much too much time on the Web with e-mail and surfing and reading my key sites, and a whole day can go by, and you wonder, ‘What did I do today?’

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

I have to be careful with surfing. It’s still an addiction to me. It’s all I want to do, and that’s the big dilemma I have with it.

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I’ve always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.

I grew up on the beach and I grew up surfing and I grew up swimming in this very genuine beach town back in Australia, and it’s just something I really want to reflect in my lifestyle and in the way I am, the way I represent myself, the way I dress and the music that I make.

Working on my first novel, ‘Groundswell’ – about a woman recovering from a bad breakup who falls in love with surfing – I spent a month south of the border. And when I wasn’t writing or surfing, I was eating. A lot.

I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling – all that stuff. But it’s just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It’s humbling, really.

I started surfing when I was working on ‘The Hunger Games,’ out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn’t play football that fall.

I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.

I swim. I do a little bit of surfing. I would say I’m a beginner at surfing. I run. I cycle. I play a little bit of soccer.

I’ve probably had the worst wipeouts in surfing, and I’ve enjoyed every one of them.

There’s nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don’t know what I would do.

The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.

I enjoy the sea more than I enjoy surfing.

When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called ‘Surfing the Menu,’ and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun.

I’m an expert on surfing the channels, so I’m always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

Surfing was something I always wanted to do.

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.

Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I’ve always had fun in South Africa.

I’m riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, ‘megaramp’ skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I’m fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I’m also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

I suck at surfing. I can’t pull myself up.

Keira was in America when we were having our moment in the sun in the U.K., so she was oblivious. But over the years, she came to loads of gigs and loved ‘Surfing the Void.’