Top 109 Surfer Quotes & Sayings

As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.

My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.

I'd become the little surfer in my childhood drawings.

Growing up, I used to go to an inlet to lay out and try to meet all the surfer guys.

For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.

I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.

I went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.

I became third in the U.S. as a junior pro surfer.

What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.

I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for the knacker's yard at 35.

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Robert De Niro's sort of like a surfer: he doesn't really force anything. So if he catches the wave, or something spills out - to watch a guy be a force at what he does. He has a good worth ethic.

It is cool to see that the fashion world has really taken to 'Instagram,' but, again, it is one of the many examples of many communities, whether you are a chef, a skateboarder, a surfer, a skier.

I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.

There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.

Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish.

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

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

Surfer girls rip and they are hot

Fathers and sons are natural enemies. Look at any species. Shark, sees his father in the water, he's not thinking, Hey dad, wassup ? He's thinking, Back off, old man, this surfer carcass is mine. Of course, when his girlfriend swims up and she's like, Way, you know, there's enough surfer for everybody. You and your dad need to frenzy together more. Leave you father a thigh.

I'm a pretty basic surfer.

I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.

I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight.

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

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

If you're a surfer, you just want to surf. You don't know if anyone's going to see you, and you don't really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

In 2008, 'Surfer's Journal' published 'The Next Wave' image with an article.

I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.

Mike Clark, who's a really amazing surfer, got me back into surfing. I surfed a lot from '82 to '86, and then I kind of started slacking.

I don't know a single surfer who would say, 'Gee, I wish there were no sharks in the ocean.'

My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure.

When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

I think there just needs to be an emotional attachment to the surfer, however you get that, so that, when you watch the surfing, you can relate to that person, or you're rooting for them, in a way.

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.

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

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

I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!

He looked like the king of muscle beach and he was a surfer. But he had vision. He believed that for a city to be great, it had to have a great newspaper.

I've always loved the seaside and I used to be a fairly keen surfer, but it's a solitary activity so when my husband and I had children, we bought sit-on-top kayaks. Whenever possible, we escape to the coast or explore rivers with them.

I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love.

I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.

Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very - it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.

I'm just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer.

When I first started my graphic design career, and 'Beach Culture' magazine, I pretty much ran from the surfer label. It was hard to get people to take you seriously.

No, 'Point Break' for me - growing up on the beaches of Sydney as a surfer, it was kind of the movie that we watched every week. For me to be Johnny Utah, I'm beside myself.

I'm a channel surfer when it comes to radio, a little bit of everything.

I don't think it's people's utterances that limit the writing. It's the activity itself. It's actually pretty hard to convey to someone who's not a surfer. The sensation is the thing. And it's tough to describe without resorting to clichés or mystical nonsense.

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.

When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.

We play in the ocean every day but for some reason we don’t make as much noise about the environment as we should. I believe the average surfer needs to do a lot more to become a greater catalyst for change

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.

No surfer wants to be the photographer, especially when the waves are good.

I smashed my tailbone and couldn't sit for five years, and I broke my clavicle because I thought I was a great surfer, and of course, I could be a great snowboarder, too. Man, was I wiped out!

I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.