Words matter. These are the best John John Florence Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I eat a lot of pasta. We eat relatively healthy. I don’t eat fast food, mostly home-cooked stuff. Chicken. Salads. Stuff like that. Oatmeal for breakfast. A big dinner.
In the past, I had these really high-tech boardshorts.
You just keep doing stuff, and one thing evolves into another. Then suddenly it’s like, ‘Oh, wait, I’m here surfing against Kelly Slater and all these guys I grew up watching.’
The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It’s just… it’s perfect. You’re perfectly present. You’re perfectly in the moment. You’re perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You’re just surfing. You’re surfing away with your friends or your family, and that’s it. You’re just there.
I want to win a world title for sure. When I’m a little bit older, I’ll have a lot of time to free-surf in my life. So I would love to win a world title.
There’s a risk to everything you do. You can take off on a one-foot wave and get hurt; you can take off on a ten-foot wave and get hurt. You just don’t think about it at all. You just go for it. When you kick out of a really big wave, it feels pretty damn good. You want to do it again.
I just want to be able surf everything – from big waves to small waves.
Winning a world title has always been the dream and ultimate goal.
I like to eat really early, 4 or 5 o’clock. That helps out a lot, to digest before you sleep.
That’s such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there’s actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.
You go to a contest, and it’s like, ‘OK, I’m here for two weeks. All my energy, time, thinking, and everything is going toward that.’ Everything you’re doing is building toward the score at the end.
I’m excited to go surfing every time. I have fun in any kind of wave in the ocean.
Africa is one of my favorite places because there are so many things to do – either surfing or going to see the animals. You can drive two hours or six hours up the coast – or just 15 minutes up the road – and it’s probably something you haven’t seen before.
No one wants to tell you their secrets, because you never know when you might get a heat with them.
I think winning the world tour events is pretty special. They’re just so hard to win.
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.
When you start forcing things, that’s when you get hurt.
One of my biggest influences growing up was Jamie O’Brien. He was like an older brother to me.
