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Simon Anderson (2006)

I’m not a religious person, but I know man was not meant to be walking back and forth in a 14′ x 8′ box with fluorescent lights on the side, shaping surfboards.

Warren Bolster

I love real hard, and I hate real hard.

Donald Takayama

I named it “Velzyland,” because I worked for Velzy, and because I always wanted to go to Disneyland.

Michael Burness

I can think of a few guys on the circuit who would definitely benefit from two years spent in the army.

Gary Propper

Peter Drouyn

Let my opponent look at me and say “Fuck you,” or ”I love you,” or “Let’s fight it out to the end.” Let’s have some contact.

Al Merrick

I wanted to be “the best shaper in the world”—except, you later realize, there's no such thing.

Alby Falzon

Once I made Morning of the Earth, what else was there to say?

Kim Mearig

Greg Mungall

That’s when you’re really making something work. When you hate the other guy because he surfs better than you.

Sid Abbruzzi

Dave Parmenter

I don’t need sponsors. I surf better when I’m broke anyway.

Sharron Weber

I’m not making excuses, but I had a little hangover after going out the night before with some guys from the Puerto Rican team

Skip Frye

Surfing is like playing music. You play different melodies with different boards.

Conrad Canha

It's bitchin’. I work three months, then draw unemployment the rest of the year and have a great time.

Nat Young (1966)

Mark Richards (1993)

Rabbit would just molest you in a heat. I molested people, too. Maybe I just molested them in a nicer way.

Walter Hoffman

Andy Irons

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure out who you are.

Snow McAlister

In 1925 I was invited to give a boardriding display at Catherine Hill Bay, near Newcastle. I found suitable waves near the mine jetty.

Jack Shipley

Peter Drouyn is the unsung hero. He impressed me with his surfing, but staggered me with his thinking.

Barry Kanaiaupuni

George Downing

Mark Sainsbury

Phil Edwards

Sometimes I feel like a two-bit version of Mickey Dora.

Jack O'Neill

What’s better than going surfing? What better possible way to occupy your time?

Margo Godfrey (1970)

So be generous, be kind, pick up hitchhikers. When you're cranky and mean, things always turn out badly.

Alec Cooke

I paddled out at Waimea that morning with blood in my eyes.

Jack Haley

Glen Winton

What was unconventional then is conventional now. What we thought was impossible is possible today.

John Severson

Pauline Menczer

Guys who aren’t so good looking can get by on personality. Women can’t do that.

Kalani Robb

I was the youngest kid ever on the WCT. I'd get kicked me out of the competitors’ area because the bouncers thought I was just some lost grommet.

Steve Lis

Chappy Jennings

What’s going on when surfers are getting tattoos? I mean, what direction is it headed?

Cheyne Horan

Hugh Bradner

You don’t have to stay dry to stay warm

Lorrin Harrison

Tom Morey

My idea of a true surfer is a guy with practically no muscles: A pure loafer, just barely squeaking through it all.

Brad Gerlach

Jimmy Lucas

My mother made me my first board, and it was a very good board.

Pete Peterson

The girl makes a tandem team. If she looks like a sack of flour up there you wouldn’t get many points.

Kathy Kohner

I was just a girl who surfed, and the guys at Malibu named me Gidget. Then I left and everything went crazy.

Barton Lynch

I’ve got a brain and I’m proud of it and I’m going to use it.

Peter Townend

I loved the fame, I fuckin’ danced on tabletops after the contest, and if I could’ve hung out with Bob Dylan, great.

Dane Kealoha

There’s always gonna be kids coming up to push the older guys overboard. I give myself three more years, then I’m gonna have to get into something else.

Jock Sutherland

You’re out there to surf . . . it's definitely a lusty situation.

Turkey Love

You know something I hate to admit? For all the years I've been on the beach, I never did own a surfboard.

Chris O'Rourke

Tiger Espere

We’re free here, getting it on, grooving in the nature that is all around us.