Surfing Quotes
Surfing is the ultimate water sport for expressing your freedom, strength, and discipline. For surfers, surfing is like meditation; they forget the world when they play with the waves. Surfers can be unexpectedly poetic and passionate when describing their surfing experience.
Whether you are gearing up for a surf session or considering learning how to walk on water, we’ve got amazing quotes to inspire you to visit the ocean and have a good surf.
55 Awesome Quotes & Sayings About Surfing
“Surfing is the most blissful experience you can have on this planet, a taste of heaven.”_John McCarthy
“Surfing to me is like playing music. You play different melodies with different boards.” – Skip Frye
“Big waves aren’t measured in feet, but in increments of fear.” – Buzzy Trent
“Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.”__Kelly Slater
“Foam is your friend. Don’t be scared of it. A little bit of extra foam here and there is good for the soul, and your surfing.” – Rob Machado
“You can take a surfer out of the surf, but you can not take surf out of surfer.”_Bob McTavish
“Sometimes in the morning, when it’s a good surf, I go out there, and I don’t feel like it’s a bad world.” – Kary Mullis
“I don’t need sponsors. I surf better when I’m broke anyway.” – Dave Parmenter
“Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.” – Jack London
“I’m just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer.” – Jack O’Neill
“I surf to get tan.” – Shane Dorian
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”__John Kabat-Zinn
“Surfing is almost a way to fly.”__Jeff Hakman
“I’ve committed to surfing the rest of my life.” – Lance Armstrong
“I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.” – Andy Irons
“I’ve tried body surfing. It’s nice.” – Ziggy Marley
“Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave.” – Paul Walker
“What I love the most about surfing is that it’s my first love. It’s the first thing I can remember being consumed by.” – Stephanie Gilmore
“Sliding a wave removes our brains out of the ordinary and slips us into the extraordinary of being there now. No more worries about mortgages or strife of being poor or rich. When you enter the domain of an ocean cylinder, that moment, those split seconds belong to the Zen part of just being. Period.” – Bill Hamilton
“Surfing in crowds is like mind over matter. If I don’t mind it don’t matter.” – Brodus Rogers
“One of the greatest things about the sport of surfing is that you need only three things: your body, a surfboard, and a wave.” – Naima Green
“There’s nothing quite like surfing by yourself in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but unpredictable weather patterns, below deck accommodation, sea snakes, coral cuts and packs of reef sharks make it a trip for the committed seadog.” – Mark Thornley
“Surfing is very much like making love. It always feels good, no matter how many times you’ve done it.”__Paul Strauch
“The best surfer out there is the one having the most fun.” – Phil Edwards
“If you’re having a bad day, catch a wave.” – Frosty Hesson
“My passion for surfing was more than my fear of sharks.” – Bethany Hamilton
“Surfing is attitude dancing.” – Gerry Lopez
“I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it’s almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.”_Kelly Slater
“Being spat out of one of those giant, roaring Hawaiian tubes is the most amazing sensation I’ve ever experienced in my life. It’s joy, fear and accomplishment all rolled into one experience.” – Shaun Tomson
“There is not one right way to ride a wave.” – Jamie O’Brien
“The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.” – Laird Hamilton
“Surfing’s the source. Can change your life. Swear to God.” – Christopher Pettiet
“I took off on a wave, went down the side, popped out the other end, and went, shit, I’m still alive!” – Greg Noll
“If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn’t even surf.” – Clay Marzo
“I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea.” – Captain James Cook
“Never drive away from good surf.” – Roger Sharp
“When the surfs up, your life is too.” – Wilhelm Sverdvik
“Surfing, alone among sports, generates laughter at its very suggestion, and this is because it turns not a skill into an art, but an inexplicable and useless urge into a vital way of life.” – Matt Warshaw
“It’s not tragic to die doing something you love.” – Mark Foo
“Surfing is such an amazing concept. You’re taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, ‘I’m gonna ride you!’ And a lot of times Nature says, ‘No you’re not!’ and crashes you to the bottom.” – Jolene Blalock
“A big wave is like a beautiful woman, exciting to look at and thrilling to ride.”_Buzzy Trent
“There are a million ways to surf, and as long as you’re smiling you’re doing it right.”__Unknown Author
“I don’t see any difference between bodyboarding and surfing – it’s all surfing.”_Tom Morey
“If in doubt, paddle out.”__Nat Young
“There is nothing, nothing, more sad than a surfer who used to surf.”_Unknown author
“The three most important things in life: surf, surf, surf.” Jack O’Neill
“It’s a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.”_Jeff Clark
“It’s like the mafia. Once you’re in – you’re in. There’s no getting out.”__Kelly Slater
“Surfing’s one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what’s behind.” Laird Hamilton
“The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.” – Kelly Slater
“I think you could build a couple of humans with the amount of skin lost on the reef at Pipe.” – Martin Potter
“We’re all equal before a wave.”__Laird Hamilton
“Climbers have Everest. Surfers have Nazaré.” – António Silva
“Surfing leads you through life, especially when you’re young and with hope in your heart.” – Tom Blake
“Live to surf, surf to live.”__Mike Doyle