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

I don't know how long I'll be competing but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

[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.

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.