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Mike Tabeling

Hobie Alter

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

Dick Dale

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.

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.

Mark Sainsbury

John Peck

Ian Cairns

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

Brad Gerlach

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.

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.

Sid Abbruzzi

Bruce Raymond

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

Hugh Bradner

You don’t have to stay dry to stay warm

Barton Lynch

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

Bobby Martinez

Michael Peterson

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

Walter Hoffman

Dick Brewer

Bob Cooper

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.

Nat Young (1966)

Sunny Garcia

Merv Larson

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

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.

Renny Yater

Glen Winton

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

Phil Edwards

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

Bill Hamilton

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

Keith Paull

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

Jack O'Neill

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

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.

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.

Cheyne Horan

Paul Strauch

Barry Kanaiaupuni

Margo Godfrey

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

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth

Rell Sunn

Eddie Aikau

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

Chris O'Rourke

Jack Shipley

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

Dru Harrison

Conrad Canha

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

Kim Mearig

Terry Fitzgerald

Pauline Menczer

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

John Severson