Kelly Slater Quotes

I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

'Proximity' features four legends and four rising stars who each bring their own athleticism, thoughts, and experiences in this behind-the-scenes look at modern surfing.

There is so much pressure on me to surfboard now

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.

I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.

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

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

Surfing was something I always wanted to do.

J-Bay displays the best of people’s surfing.

I feel like an ambassador for surfing at this point. I'm happy to go and play that role and share that where I can in certain areas of the mainstream media that doesn't get the surfing attention.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

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.

I love having the opportunity to surf.

Surfing isn't really in my blood. It's hard to catch a big wave in Billingham.

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 been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

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.

Every part of me is a surfer. I love surfing, and I love the waves that I surf. So that's the thing that I get excited about most: What kind of waves am I going to be able to surf? Am I going to be surfing alone, or will we be surfing waves that no one's surfed before? Second to that is photography.

I like surfing; I bring a surfboard with me on tour.

I feel my absolute best physically, mentally and spiritually when I'm surfing every day.

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.