Kelly Slater Quotes

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.

Surfing was something I always wanted to do.

I've been surfing several times, and I'm terrible at it. But what I found was that you're usually waiting on the board, hanging out, watching the waves come in. And one that you think is a big wave is not actually one.

Me and Jeffrey Wright were hanging out a lot. We go surfing a fair bit when he's on the West Coast. He's a legend.

I love to swim in the ocean in big waves.

I really love the beach.

I surfed until I was 18, and being the athlete that I am, I got really frustrated with how I wasn't really getting any better.

I'm a California kid, so I love the beach.

I like to go surfing because I want to feel the ocean and experience nature, and nature fixes my balance, and this life is crazy sometimes, so it helps a wrestler's life because a wrestler's life is crazy sometimes.

I tried to swim as much as possible. Being in Southern California in the summer time, it's so nice because you have the warm beaches, so I try to swim every day.

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

I'm a total beach bum.

I surf a lot.

When you come out of the ocean after surfing all day, loco moco is the best thing you ever tasted.

I was more of a surfer girl and never really that punky.

As I'm a complete water baby, being by the beach helps me relax.

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I just want to be able surf everything - from big waves to small waves.

If I choose a holiday destination, it would be a beach.

Florida's waves are better than Japan. It's just an hour drive to the beach, but just once a week, I'm able to go to the surfing.

I started filmmaking when I started surfing, so the two things have been with me since I was 12 years old, so it's sort of been in my bones to make surf movies. I guess every now and then I just crave to do it again.

I love the beach; I grew up on the Baltic Sea. I love the beach. I love the water. I love surfing and swimming.

I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.

I'm excited to go surfing every time. I have fun in any kind of wave in the ocean.

I think everyone should get out and go for a surf.