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John Peck

Gary Green

Grubby Clark

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

Sid Abbruzzi

Conrad Canha

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

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.”

Jimmy Lucas

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

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

Ian Cairns

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

Jeff Hakman

Surfing is almost a way to fly.

Corky Carroll

I had to sell the Porsche. Which was fine. It's a dumb car for a surfer, when you think about it.

Steve Lis

Paul Strauch

Hobie Alter

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

Cheyne Horan

Wayne Bartholomew

Shaun Tomson was the pace-setter, he broke the most new ground. My trip was more search and destroy. He was the technician. I was Attila the Hun.

Skip Frye

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

Mimi Munro

Nat Young (1966)

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.

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.

Phil Edwards

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

Pete Peterson

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

Dave Parmenter

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

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.

Dick Brewer

Margo Godfrey

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

Bill Hamilton

Tom Morey

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

Donald Takayama

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

Mark Sainsbury

Barton Lynch

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

Ryan Dotson

Things will just keep progressing. Radical surfing is here to stay.

Alby Falzon

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

Mike Hynson

Tom Blake

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

Gerry Lopez

Terry Fitzgerald

Bob Cooper

Shaun Tomson

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

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.

Bruce Raymond

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

Kim Mearig

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.

Butch Van Artsdalen

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

Mike Tabeling

Jack Haley

Shane Beschen

Andy Irons

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

Bobby Martinez