Quotes

"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 (European Discoverer of the Hawaiian Islands)

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

 -- Kurt Cobain

God created surfboards to keep the truly gifted from ruling the world.

 -- Bumper Sticker

If I say it's safe to surf this beach Captain, then it's safe to surf this beach. I mean I'm not afraid to surf this place. I'll surf this whole f-ing place!

 -- Kilgore (Movie: Apocalypse Now)

Out of the water, I am nothing.

 -- Duke Kahanamoku

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 ("Maverick's: The Story of Big-Wave Surfing")

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

 -- George Eads

I've tried body surfing. It's nice.

 -- Ziggy Marley