Words matter. These are the best Kelly Slater Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
For a surfer, it’s never-ending. There’s always some wave you want to surf.
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.
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it’s the most difficult thing in the world.
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.
I wanted to be a comedian.
Big waves are a whole different ball game. You’re riding a wave with an immense amount of speed and power, generally over 10 meters. On the face of the wave, obviously life and death thoughts start to happen.
Surfing is my religion, if I have one.
Surfing is my religion, if I have one.
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it’s the most difficult thing in the world.
Most of what Hawaii has to offer is no secret. Pipeline is probably the most famous wave in the world.
My belief is that ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’ are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.
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.
When I’m 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now – for me it’s a lifelong journey.
I wanted to be a comedian.
A lot of times I’ll see guys who are nowhere near the level of the board they’re riding. They might love surfing and love how it looks, but you really have to work your way up. It takes eating a little humble pie at first, and stepping back to equipment that might be a bit slow, but do it.
Fatherhood isn’t always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It’s very natural and in that sense it’s not really difficult.
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.
Most of what Hawaii has to offer is no secret. Pipeline is probably the most famous wave in the world.
Big waves are a whole different ball game. You’re riding a wave with an immense amount of speed and power, generally over 10 meters. On the face of the wave, obviously life and death thoughts start to happen.
Most anything I’ve ever set my mind to, I could accomplish.
It’s a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it’s big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.
When I’m 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now – for me it’s a lifelong journey.
