Garrett McNamara

Nazare is crazy. When you're out in the ocean, and you're a little bit past the wave, outside, it doesn't really look…

— Garrett McNamara

I can be sittin' at home in Hawaii and see the biggest swell of the year coming here and be so happy…

— Garrett McNamara

The world would be a much better place if everyone was doing what they wanted to do.

— Garrett McNamara

I got desensitized by riding so many big waves that I don't really get a rush anymore.

— Garrett McNamara

When I'm riding a wave and making it, it's just like, 'Alright, yeah, another wave.' But when you're getting pounded and thrown…

— Garrett McNamara

Now I know that if I surf without expectations and have a map for making my passion my life's plan, I'm always…

— Garrett McNamara

To ride big waves you have to be ready mentally, physically and spiritually.

— Garrett McNamara

My son was made on North Beach, and my daughter was named after Nazare.

— Garrett McNamara

I always say it's not how big the wave is, it's how you ride it.

— Garrett McNamara

I read 'The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success' every day. The first time I read it, I was 35, depressed, and about…

— Garrett McNamara

If you look at the statistics, it's a lot more dangerous to ride down a highway than a big wave.

— Garrett McNamara

My mother married this guy, his name was Darryl. And he was moving us to Hawaii. And he was a musician. He…

— Garrett McNamara

Nazare loves me! I said God loves surfers, but Mama Nazare definitely loves me.

— Garrett McNamara

I keep trying to listen when I'm in a big wave, but I really don't hear anything.

— Garrett McNamara

My brothers said I was always the craziest, always pushing buttons.

— Garrett McNamara

When I was sixteen I was terrified and I vowed never to surf waves over ten feet tall.

— Garrett McNamara

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

— Garrett McNamara

So, when you come down a big wave and everything's perfect, you make it to the shoulder and you kick out. But,…

— Garrett McNamara

I got married at the lighthouse , the 16th-century Forte de Sao Miguel Arcanjo, on the edge of the promontory of Sitio.

— Garrett McNamara

I've got a really amazing ability to forget and disregard information that comes in my brain.

— Garrett McNamara

Nazare is a special place for me; we got married right there, at the lighthouse. The seafood and wine are amazing. Best…

— Garrett McNamara

I've probably had the worst wipeouts in surfing, and I've enjoyed every one of them.

— Garrett McNamara

When you're underwater getting pounded, you are at the mercy of the ocean.

— Garrett McNamara

And, you know, I think all of us surfers, our happy place, the place we like more than anywhere on the wave…

— Garrett McNamara