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Al Merrick

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

Pete Peterson

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

Michael Burness

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

Jimmy Lucas

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

Bev Morgan

There’s a limit to how much you can bullshit in surfing. In the end, you have to be able to look in the mirror and say, “I can ride this wave or I can’t.”

Renny Yater

Shane Beschen

Chappy Jennings

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

Dick Brewer

Jack Haley

Tiger Espere

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

Hobie Alter

My dad encouraged me to go into the surfboard business. He didn’t think I was going anywhere in school.

Gerry Lopez

Bruce Raymond

I joined the fire department and earned $150 a week and I’d spent $100 of that on dope.

Barry Kanaiaupuni

Cheyne Horan

Merv Larson

I'd go up and over with the lip, not make it, and my sinuses would be ruined for three weeks.

Steve Lis

George Downing

Brock Little (1986)

Sometimes in the water I'll be saying to myself, “What are you doing, Brock, you’re so dumb.”

Kaipo Jaquias

My dad always said he surfed better than me. I hated him, so that’s why I got to be better than him.

Brad Gerlach

Jack Shipley

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

J Riddle

From out of nowhere this board comes flying at me, knocking me 15-feet in the air. I turned around, and it was Dora. He’d just done a flying kickout on a ten-year-old kid!

Bob Cooper

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.

Neridah Falconer

I've never kissed anyone's arse to get what I have. There are always the battlers out there, and I'm one of 'em.

Dick Dale

Mike Hynson

Tom Blake

Surfing leads you through life, especially when you’re young and with hope in your heart.

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

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.

Ronnie Burns

After a while, surfing Pipe is just like surfing Rocky Point

Rell Sunn

Grubby Clark

It’s dirty, messy, and it’s hard work, and it’s not anything you'd dream of doing for a career.

Terry Fitzgerald

Ian Cairns

I went out to ride a 25-foot wave in the same manner as if I was riding a four-foot wave.

Rusty Miller

I never thought of surfing in terms of a career. It was just something we did. I mean, I was going to be a political science teacher.

Paul Strauch

Butch Van Artsdalen

I don’t want to be connected with surfing in a business way. I’d like to be a plumber.

Barton Lynch

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

Skip Frye

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

Kathy Kohner

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

Dave Parmenter

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

Greg Mungall

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

Miki Dora (1969)

When there’s surf, I’m totally committed; when there’s none, it doesn’t exist.

Bryce Ellis

I do it for the sport. I like to compete. I’d still be doing the circuit if there was no money at all.

Andy Irons

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

Jack O'Neill

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

Bobby Martinez