Surfing is a surface water pastime in which the wave rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward part, or face, of a moving wave, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Inspirational surfing quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Most Famous Surfing Quotes
Surfing is for life. – Bruce Jenkins
The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport. – Kelly Slater
The best surfer out there is the one having the most fun. – Phil Edwards
If in doubt, paddle out. – Nat Young
If you’re having a bad day, catch a wave. – Frosty Hesson
The best surfer out there is the one having the most fun. – Duke Kahanamoku
Surfing’s one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what’s behind. – Laird Hamilton
You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
I surf to get a tan. – Shane Dorian
One drop in is an accident, two is rude, three is a twatable offence. – Roger Sharp
There are a million ways to surf, and as long as you’re smiling you’re doing it right. – unknown
My passion for surfing was more than my fear of sharks. – Bethany Hamilton
Life is a lot like surfing…When you get caugh in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. because you never know what may be the next wave. – Bethany Hamilton
It’s a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks. – Jeff Clark
Then, after I’ve gotten rid of Batman and Robin for good, I will rule the waves. Me, the Joker, king of the surf and all the surfers. Then, Gotham City! Later, the world! – The Joker
Eddie would go. – Mark Foo
Surfing is attitude dancing. – Gerry Lopez
We’re all equal before a wave. – Laird Hamilton
Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. – Kelly Slater
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. – Kary Mullis
Surfing’s the source. Can change your life. Swear to God. – Bohdi
Thank God for a few free waves. – Miki Dora
One of the greatest things about the sport of surfing is that you need only three things: your body, a surf-board, and a wave. – Naima Green
Surfing is such an amazing concept. You’re taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, ‘I’m gonna ride you!’ And a lot of times Nature says, ‘No you’re not!’ and crashes you to the bottom. – Jolene Blalock
Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right of way. – Matt Armstrong
Honest to goodness it’s the absolute ultimate! – Gidget
Wiping out is an under appreciated skill. – Laird Hamilton
I took off on a wave, went down the side, popped out the other end, and went, shit, I’m still alive! – Greg Noll
Surfing, alone among sports, generates laughter at its very suggestion, and this is because it turns not a skill into an art, but an inexplicable and useless urge into a vital way of life. – Matt Warshaw
Surfing expresses … a pure yearning for visceral, physical contact with the natural world. – Matt Warshaw
The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding … if you’re out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don’t land on soft snow. It’s usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you’re tumbling underwater. – Frederick Lenz
If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn’t even surf. – Clay Marzo
I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea. – Captain James Cook
Surfing equates to living in the very moment of now’. When you ride a wave you leave behind all things important and unimportant, the purity of the moment is upon you. – Bill Hamilton
Three most important things in life, surf, surf and surf. – Jack O’Neill
Surf and feel your life be changed forever. – Nossa Company
There’s an independence to surfing, it’s just you and the ocean. There aren’t a bunch of rules. – Lee Clow
Never drive away from good surf. – Roger Sharp
Waves are toys from God – Clay Marzo
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
There is wisdom in waves. Some surfers see it right away, others never do. To find success in surfing, we must learn to be in harmony with nature. This will bring a sense of peace. By sharing this peace, and contributing to other people’s happiness, we can find the true meaning of life. Keep surfing . . . – Gerry Lopez
Surfing is good for the soul, worries seems to drift away as you scan the horizon for the next wave. – Ed Daley
Surfing is like life. Every wave and every day are different. – unknown
When the surfs up, your life is too – Wilhelm Sverdvik
As for my own surfing, let’s just say that when the waves start pushing 10 feet, I get this tremendous urge to make a sandwich. – Bruce Jenkins
It’s a cakewalk, when you know how. – Gerry Lopez
For a surfer, the fluidity of the ocean – of being in it – is what matters. – Alan ‘Fuz’ Bleakley
I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me. – Kelly Slater
Surfing gets your soul, once you feel the wave lift you up and thrust you forward you begin to realise how powerful but beautiful mother nature is and how vast the universe really is, this cant help but smile on your face in absolute awe of how beautiful it is to have participated in life. – Fisher Cannon
I’ve tried body surfing. It’s nice. – Ziggy Marley
I’m just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer. – Jack O’Neill
Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should. – Jack London
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
The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go. – John Slattery
It’s funny, ’cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it’s not at all. – Joel Parkinson
I caught my first tube today… Sir. – Johnny Utah
The only one whom can whisper to you the ways of the surf, is the wind. – Wilhelm Sverdvik
When the surfs up, your life is too. – Wilhelm Sverdvik
There are no more committed people on the planet than surfers. We fall down a lot. We turn around, paddle back out, and do it over and over again. Unlike anything else in life, the stoke of surfing is so high that the failures quickly fade from memory. – Gary Sirota
Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you’re really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing’s as raw of a sport as it gets. – Kelly Slater
Sliding a wave removes our brains out of the ordinary and slips us into the extra ordinary of being there now. No more worries about mortgages or strife of being poor or rich. When you enter the domain of an ocean cylinder, that moment, those split seconds belong to the Zen part of just being. Period. – Bill Hamilton
When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing. – Jon Foreman
Waves are toys from God. – Clay Marzo
When life gives you rough waves, surf’em. – unknown
I feel my absolute best physically, mentally and spiritually when I’m surfing every day. – Marisa Miller
Surfing is very much like making love. It always feels good, no matter how many times you’ve done it. – Paul Strauch
100% pure adrenaline! – Bodhi
There is nothing, nothing, more sad than a surfer who used to surf. – Old Surfer Sage
I’ve always thought surfing is a reflection of who you are. – Kelly Slater
I don’t think anyone gets to the end of their life and wishes they had surfed less. – Bradley Hook
Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love, and it’s a part of me. – Bethany Hamilton
Live to surf, surf to live. – Mike Doyle
Tell the teacher we’re surfin’. – The Beach Boys
Out of the water, I am nothing. – Duke Kahanamoku
There is not one right way to ride a wave. – Jamie O’Brien
Surfing in crowds is like mind over matter. If I don’t mind it don’t matter. – Brodus Rogers
In surfing, coming to terms with death — or at least the possibility — is an ongoing crisis in big waves. The set is building outside, and it’s so beautiful, aesthetically. People are watching in awe from the beach: the blue water, the stiff offshore winds, the 40-foot walls charging in from the open ocean. If you’re out there with nothing but your body, your wits and a surfboard, that set can be your coffin. – Bruce Jenkins
Surfing is the most blissful experience you can have on this planet, a taste of heaven. – John McCarthy
You’re sayin’ the FBI’s gonna pay me to learn to surf? – Johnny Utah
It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too. – George Eads
I’m surfing the giant life wave. – William Shatner
What I love the most about surfing is that it’s my first love. It’s the first thing I can remember being consumed by. – Stephanie Gilmore
There is nothing, nothing, more sad than a surfer who used to surf. – Unknown
Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave. – Paul Walker
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. – John Kabat-Zinn
It’s not tragic to die doing something you love. – Mark Foo
I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it’s almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time. – Kelly Slater
It’s like the mafia. Once you’re in – your in. There’s no getting out. – Kelly Slater
If it swells, ride it! – Unknown
