As long as Im getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

It's true. Happiness is a big thing.

I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.

I guess you're only as good as the waves.

Ive been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title.

I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when Im competing.

It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I dont let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

Misery, after all, loves company.

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.