I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.

I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.

I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.