A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go make memories; beautiful memories. Because when the time comes to go, you won't go alone.

Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.

Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.

Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.

I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

It's easier to die when you have lived than it is to die when you haven't.

The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.

There is a wisdom in the wave - high-born, beautiful - for those who would but paddle out.

The greatest thing in life is health.

I love to be called Doc.

Music shortens the distance between all people.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

Keep putting out good. It will come back to you tenfold in unexpected ways.

America has everything, why should they want us.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.

To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind.

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.

The medicine increases the disease.