Nick Woodman Quotes

Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element.

I love the ocean and have a passion for surfing, even though I'm not very good at it. I like getting out there and paddling around.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

Surfing is something I just crave.

My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.

Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.

When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the wave is lipping up over the top of you, it makes this hissing sound.

I grew up surfing. My dad probably put me on a surfboard before I could walk.

When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and I was just in heaven.

I've tried body surfing. It's nice.

I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.

All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.

Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me.

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.

My best vacation memory is getting barreled at the beach in Hawaii.

It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave.

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 am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.

When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that's what really now has led me in big part to GoPro.

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.

Rock climbing and surfing are two of my favorite things in life.

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