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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.

Michael Burness

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

Jim Banks

There was no way I was coming out of that tube, but I did, and everyone was just screaming, the whole beach was screaming.

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.

Glen Winton

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

Felipe Pomar

If I stayed in Peru I was going to have to work, and that would mean less surfing and I didn’t want to 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.

Bobby Martinez

Kim Mearig

Mike Tabeling

Pete Peterson

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

Butch Van Artsdalen

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

Dick Dale

John Severson

Alec Cooke

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

Shaun Tomson

Being spat out of one of those giant, roaring Hawaiian tubes . . . it's joy, fear and accomplishment all rolled into one experience.

Walter Hoffman

Mark Sainsbury

John Milius

A movie about Vietnam has to have a surfer. It was a California war—all the dope, the peace symbols, the rock and roll.

Andy Irons

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

Mary Ann Hawkins

Eddie Aikau

I’ve gone over to Barry Kanaiaupuni’s way of thinking. Turns are all I’m interested in now.

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.

Dru Harrison

Tiger Espere

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

Tom Carroll

The key is to not bullshit yourself. Don’t create something that isn’t there inside you. If you're faking it, it'll be really obvious.

Simon Anderson (1981)

Some people openly laughed. All year people they were saying that the Thruster wouldn’t work.

Bob Cooper

Miki Dora

Michael Peterson

I’ll never be a has-been. I’ll just drop off undefeated.

Conrad Canha

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

Chris O'Rourke

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.

Greg Mungall

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

Jack O'Neill

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

Bruce Raymond

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

George Downing

Jack Shipley

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

Rell Sunn

Lorrin Harrison

Gary Propper

Shane Beschen

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.

Jack Haley

Paul Strauch

Barton Lynch

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

Mark Richards (1978)

Larry Bertlemann

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth

Merv Larson

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