Garrett McNamara

I love being underwater.

— Garrett McNamara

I love working out to Eminem.

— Garrett McNamara

I have two settings: full speed and stop.

— Garrett McNamara

Surfing is my life. It's my passion.

— Garrett McNamara

I'm not a thrill seeker.

— Garrett McNamara

Riding big waves was my passion.

— Garrett McNamara

I broke ribs three different times.

— Garrett McNamara

Follow your heart and fear does not exist.

— Garrett McNamara

I wanted to be the first to ride a 100-foot wave.

— Garrett McNamara

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

— Garrett McNamara

All these waves are just so fun to ride and are normal to me.

— Garrett McNamara

I tend to get overly excited and want to just go. I just love, love big waves.

— Garrett McNamara

You won't catch me riding a horse, because I'm afraid of them.

— Garrett McNamara

I hope to be able to keep surfing as long as I'm alive.

— Garrett McNamara

One of my favorite road trips of all time was here, in Australia, in Western Oz.

— Garrett McNamara

I've always had very comfortable experiences under the water. I've enjoyed them all.

— Garrett McNamara

We didn't have much money and my mom scrounged up $15 and bought us a surf board at a yard sale.

— 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

If I go to the gym and I put the headphones on, I'm going to go a hundred and ten percent until…

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

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I'm not an adrenaline junkie; I won't jump out of aeroplanes and I'm afraid of horses. I just love surfing.

— Garrett McNamara

I went to Alaska a while back and surfed the waves generated from a glacier calving and ever since then, I've never…

— Garrett McNamara

To acknowledge that the biggest wave in the world might be a shore break off a little Portuguese town no one has…

— Garrett McNamara

I might just paddle out to hang out, and if I get a wave, I'd do it, but if I don't, it's…

— 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,…

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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

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

— Garrett McNamara

I'm hurtling down bumpy, choppy water very close to being out of control, doing everything I can to stay on my board.…

— Garrett McNamara

In the beginning of my career, I loved the fear because if I was afraid, then I was going to get the…

— Garrett McNamara

I've been soulsearching: why do I do this? Because I don't really get the rush on these waves, and I don't surf…

— Garrett McNamara

If you get under water, you're at the mercy of our team coming in and getting us before we get another one…

— 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 wake up early, between 3 and 5 in the morning.

— Garrett McNamara

When I was five-years-old I was jumping off two-story buildings.

— Garrett McNamara

I haven't been afraid in awhile, but whenever I am, I get a rush.

— Garrett McNamara

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

— Garrett McNamara

I lose my mind if I miss a swell that I want to be on and I have the ability to be…

— Garrett McNamara

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

— Garrett McNamara

The ocean is my church and my playground, and it's where I love to be. It's where I belong.

— Garrett McNamara

In Nazare, the ocean is known as a place of death, not of riding waves.

— Garrett McNamara