Top 40 Surfing Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We’re all equal before a wave.”

— Laird Hamilton

2. “I’m seeking out a new way to live and if it’s surfing, that’s the way I’ll do it. I’ll be a surfer for the rest of my life.”

— Andy Warhol

3. “I’ve committed to surfing the rest of my life.”

— Lance Armstrong

4. “Now you know where I got my name.”

— Stokely Carmichael

5. “I don’t need easy, I just need possible.”

— Bethany Hamilton

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6. “It’s not tragic to die doing something you love.”

— Mark Foo

7. “Out of water, I am nothing.”

— Duke Kahanamoku

8. “It’s all about where your mind’s at.”

— Kelly Slater

9. “In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.”

— William James

10. “Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.”

— Buzzy Trent

11. “Who needs to walk on fire, when you can walk on water with this site.”

— Tony Robbins

12. “Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

13. “Head Start is designed to ensure that all children – regardless of their family’s income, race, or ethnic background – are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.”

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

14. “Surfing is attitude dancing.”

— Gerry Lopez

15. “I can be surfing the exact same wave and then sometimes something will just set off, even if I’m riding the same board the whole time. Something will just set off and it just feels like you can push just that extra bit harder.”

— Mick Fanning

16. “Waves are toys from God.”

— Clay Marzo

17. “Gone surfing. Be back soon. -D.”

— Alyson Noel

18. “I’m super excited about gaming always. That’s the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I’m surfing if I’m not already playing a game at night.”

— Felicia Day

19. “I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I’m kind of clumsy.”

— Lee Pace

20. “And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.”

— Scott Adams

21. “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.”

— Annasophia Robb

22. “I got to learn to surf.”

— Sheryl Crow

23. “Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.”

— Patrick Swayze

24. “Surfer girls rip and they are hot.”

— Alana Blanchard

25. “Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you’re bouncing over the waves and you’re surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.”

— Richard Branson

26. “I love surfing more than cricket. It’s more interesting and you meet great people.”

— Hansie Cronje

27. “Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.”

— Agatha Christie

28. “I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves – that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I’m small and fragile.”

— Jason Mraz

29. “Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her laptop bag slung over her shoulder – ready for stabbing or surfing the Internet, whichever came first.”

— Rick Riordan

30. “With Crazy Horse, it’s all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I’m part of it. It’s like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.”

— Neil Young

31. “I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.”

— Robin Williams

32. “You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.”

— Michelangelo Antonioni

33. “Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.”

— Virginia Woolf

34. “A movie is kind of like being the captain of a ship, which is nice, but when I perform by myself it’s just surfing on the water and nobody really knows what happens.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

35. “Sometimes I wish I had every different sort of board that I could just bring out for this surf when I feeling like surfing this board. I love riding old single fins and twin fins.”

— Mick Fanning

36. “Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either.”

— John Irving

37. “The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.”

— Satyajit Ray

38. “I’ve tried body surfing. It’s nice.”

— Ziggy Marley

39. “Our album ‘Show No Mercy’ came out in late ’83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.”

— Tom Araya

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

— Stephan Jenkins