Troy Polamalu Quotes

I really enjoy surfing a lot. It's an awesome sport. With surfing there are no mind games versus Peyton Manning, or versus anyone else. It's not me trying to throw a certain shot put further - or to put a ball in a hoop, it's just me against mother nature.

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

I'm a pretty basic surfer.

I love being in the woods, when I can just walk barefoot in the grass and just sit down and breathe. I love that so much.

I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun.

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I'm just going to go out and play. At the end of the day, you are still hitting a little white ball with your clubs.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

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'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.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.