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

It's true. Happiness is a big thing.

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

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

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.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion.

What is God's part and what is man's part? God's part is grace. Man's part is faith.

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't care!

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.