Always Quote by Hobart Alter

Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not…

— John Van Hamersveld

In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always…

— Hobart Alter

Surfing also teaches quality . I will wager that it is not the number of waves that makes a session memorable for any given…

— Shaun Tomson

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of…

— Tristan Prettyman

Surfers travelled and opened up and changed. It became more mainstream, less of a cult. And it diversified. On any given day in the…

— Tim Winton

One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.

— Gerry Lopez

Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very - it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable.…

— Xavier Rudd

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way…

— Jolene Blalock

The nice thing about working in surf films so long is becoming part of the surf tribe. Anywhere I go where there are surfers,…

— Taylor Steele

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave…

— Bethany Hamilton

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort…

— Kelly Slater

Well, it was - big wave surfing was my job. And I had to accomplish some great feat every year. And we kept finding…

— Garrett McNamara