Blue Quote by Konnie Huq

In my 20s, I was body surfing in Spain and the current dragged me out. I was waving at my friends who thought I…

— Ainsley Harriott

In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.

— Bethany Hamilton

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

— Garrett McNamara

“The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes,”

— Mark Twain

My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a…

— Sylvia Earle

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And,…

— Anonymous

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were…

— Helena Christensen

It's hard for me to describe the joy I felt after I stood up and rode wave in for the first time after the…

— Bethany Hamilton

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

I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was…

— Jeremy Clarkson

My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at…

— Xavier Rudd

Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.

— Yvonne Strahovski