A Quote by Gerry Lopez

Surfing is attitude dancing. — © Gerry Lopez
Surfing is attitude dancing.
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'm so bad at dancing that I've actually been in two movies where the director of the film saw me dancing and thought it was so funny that in one movie they had me do it as the mental dancing of a real simple person. The other one was, like, to-be-laughed-at dancing. That's how bad my dancing is.
I don't know how long I'll be competing but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.
I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.
One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.
The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.
I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.
They call it 'surfing' the net. It's not surfing. It's typing in your bedroom
It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.
All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.
Surfing frees everything up. It's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress free, and that's what surfing is all about.
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude
It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another.
I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
It's for 'Haasil' that finally I got to do a lot of water surfing. Kabir Raichand, my character performs surfing and to do it accurately, I had undergone a crash course in Mauritius.
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.
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