Kelly Slater Quotes

As I'd go out learning to surf, I'd feel the power of waves coming over my body. It's like you're with God.

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.

I work out a lot, but I like to do action sports. A lot of surfing, mountain-biking.

I guess you're only as good as the waves.

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

I ski, I surf, I scuba dive... any sport that starts with an 's.'

Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.

Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.

I like to watch surfers and skaters that are really fast and really powerful and everything flows.

There's a risk to everything you do. You can take off on a one-foot wave and get hurt; you can take off on a ten-foot wave and get hurt. You just don't think about it at all. You just go for it. When you kick out of a really big wave, it feels pretty damn good. You want to do it again.

For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.

I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.

What the studio didn't understand is that surfing is about a billion times more dangerous than skydiving. They would not allow the boys to skydive, but they allowed us to surf in pipeline in Hawaii. Nine-hundred foot waves. So we're out there in the middle where the greatest surfers in the world surf. They have these long lenses on from the beach, so they can't see anything. They are just shooting our faces in the Point Break.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki.

Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.

There's still nothing I love more than being in the air. I've always liked speed and things on wheels, going out there and putting it all out there, being on the edge.

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.

I'm a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It's fun, you know? It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

I haven't gone sky diving yet and I want to do that, real bad. I love adrenaline and going fast.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

I'm a pretty good snowboarder but a terrible surfer.

To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.