Duke Kahanamoku Quotes

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

You've got to let the game come to you. You can't press.

The second mouse gets the cheese!

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It's going to happen when it's supposed to happen. I'm not rushing it. I'm not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.

I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.

I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.

Things come to him who can wait.

Sometimes you just have to calm down a little bit and let the system work itself.

I think, in life, the more you force things, they break. You just let things happen.

I wait for options, hoping that a space for a pass will appear at the last moment.

The guys I came up with would always tell me that no matter if we're up or down, if you go in, get in there and play hard. But just know that sometimes you just have to be patient and wait your turn.