I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!

I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love.

God has a lot more to give and to offer than the world has to give.

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

That's really what ultimately matters - the emotions and feelings that you experienced and people around [whom] you experienced [them].

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

[The biggest lesson I've got is] Learning to have patience with people, just take it one step at a time in everything that you're doing and just invest time in the people that you're with ... have patience with them, even if they're not necessarily the easiest person to work with.