38 Quotes by Laird Hamilton

Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!

I know that if I scare myself once a day, I’m a better person.

People don’t want to do new things if they think they’re going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you’ve never done in order to be the best you can be.

In all successful relationships, the man respects the woman – and it takes a special guy to handle a successful woman. You have to be confident in who you are and what you do.

If you can look at one of these waves and you don’t believe that there’s something greater than we are, then you’ve got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very long time.

Wiping out is an underappreciated skill.

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.

I do need to travel with a purpose, though. I can’t go somewhere to just hang out with friends.

All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.