Theo Paphitis Quotes

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

I am not a fan of being in the sea. I like being in a boat - sailing.

Sailing is a big outlet for me.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.

When my dad hit 40, he quit everything. He sold the house and bought the boat and went off sailing the world. I was on that boat from age 12 to 18. We didn't actually go around the world. We went pretty much from France through the whole Mediterranean basin. We went to Ireland first. We also went to coast of Africa, South America and the Caribbean.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E.

Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.

I've been to Israel many times - I've lost count of how many times.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.

I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.

I particularly love Israel. I've had fantastic experiences there.

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.

My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.

I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.