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Jack O'Neill

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

Pauline Menczer

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

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.

Andy Irons

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

Chappy Jennings

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

Sid Abbruzzi

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.

Warren Bolster

I love real hard, and I hate real hard.

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.

Brad Gerlach

Larry Bertlemann

Keone Downing

Harold Iggy

It is a form of surfing, I guess. But a surfer prefers a real wave, not an artificial one.

Nat Young (1966)

Ryan Dotson

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

Margo Godfrey

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

Conrad Canha

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

Bruce Raymond

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

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.

Jock Sutherland

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

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.

Keith Paull

My strongest desire was to travel. To me, the more beaches you surfed the better surfer you become.

Matt Kivlin

The “Malibu style”—we got from Rabbit Kekai. We brought it back from Hawaii. Before that, everybody here just stood on the tail.

Bobby Martinez

Walter Hoffman

Gary Propper

Dave Parmenter

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

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.

Barton Lynch

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

Merv Larson

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

Phil Edwards

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

Alby Falzon

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

Steve Lis

Mike Tabeling

Jeff Hakman

Surfing is almost a way to fly.

Alec Cooke

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

Butch Van Artsdalen

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

Kim Mearig

Jimmy Lucas

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

Mike Hynson

Tiger Espere

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

Corky Carroll

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

Tom Morey

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

Lorrin Harrison

Paul Strauch

Joyce Hoffman

Shaun Tomson

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

Donald Takayama

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

Grubby Clark

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

Pete Peterson

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