Dick Dale Quotes

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

Surfing is something I just crave.

Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.

To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.

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.

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

I love having the opportunity to surf.

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

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

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

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

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

I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.

I've been boogie-boarding, off and on, since I was a kid. But I started being devoted to the cause of getting up every morning to surf, when I'm in Los Angeles, about a decade or so ago.

Surfing was something I always wanted to do.

Surfing is incredible. It's both meditative and physical. I think it was my way into California.

I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.

There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.

In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always got really into whatever it was I was doing.

I'm a pretty good snowboarder but a terrible surfer.

Surfing - I have to go surfing.

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.

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.