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It was insane. To have some great local surfers out there with you made it even better.

Jake Kirschenbaum

I tell them to pursue their passion, don't let anyone stop you and don't give in to peer pressure. I've seen a lot of amazing surfers who should have been here (at this contest), but never made it because of drugs. And it's a shame.

Alex Gray

I've stopped counting at 150 surfers in the water.

Barbara Parker

We're trying to warn surfers that we have high surf and strong rip currents and they should use extreme caution.

Mike Cunningham

Those Santa Cruz guys are better surfers than me, but that's big-wave surfing for you. Everyone's got a chance.

Grant Baker

Surfers are really conservative. More surfers fear change and are resistant to change.

Corey Davis

We may not be able to get much bigger (waves) than we are today. But every year we are able to bring better quality surfers to the event. Better surfers, better vendors who are more civic-minded and less commercial, that is what we try to do every year to improve the family friendly environment.

Dick Catri

Those boards are all mass produced and there is no quality control. Hard-core surfers can tell the difference and they can't live with that.

Jefferson Wagner

Surfing wasn't about money back then. Surfers always lived cheaply and scraped by.

Mark Cunningham

Ron Jon stepped up to the plate this year. They did it to get those surfers from California and Hawaii and Puerto Rico. We do have some outstanding surfers coming.

Dick Catri

It was good for surfers, ... Unfortunately, undertows and rip currents were beginning to occur.

Barry Goldsmith

As a veteran surf camp instructor, I've had my share of hospital runs, sharks, mishaps, and close calls. I thought my stories were intense, until other surfers began sending me theirs.

Paul Diamond

In the '60s, the center of the art world was New York and we were just surfers, 15 to 20 artists bouncing off each other, trying to make it mutually supportive for each other.

Peter Alexander

I am stoked that we have come so far being undefeated, and very confident our family of Redondo surfers could make it this far. I think that the parental support is a big help for all of us.

Marina Richardson

Thousands of anxious Web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared (online), revealing ... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.

Tony Phillips

The more (the government) can figure out who the surfers are, the more peoples' First Amendment rights are in jeopardy.

Peter Swire

This event ranks really high because it is for the best surfers in the world at this age. And what I like about it is the team concept. They're not just surfing as individuals, but they're representing where they're from.

Rainos Hayes

The only problem comes when a hurricane moves in too close. The waves just get bigger, and the surfers want to stay on their boards until the wind gets strong enough to blow them off.

Joe Wooden

In the entire history of surfing ... only a handful of surfers who have dropped off the WTC have been able to claw their way back.

Robert Gerard

It could be a major benefit for us. If surfers find a snippet from a movie, it might entice them into buying the whole tape. We can actually turn these shared files into mini-infomercials.

David Schlesinger

An amateur photographer was shooting surfers.

Bill Sisson

We have people who are surfers or wake boarders, they see it on the video and think 'Oh hey, I can do that,' then they get on and last 45 seconds.

Nick Santos

We've taken on the challenge of building a performance fish for bigger and more mature surfers, guys and gals who want to enjoy the speed and responsiveness of smaller, quicker boards, but need the float and paddling power of bigger boards.

Barry Green

I saw only three surfers, quite a ways out. There was nobody else in the water. It was too rough.

Lisa Bourcier

Aggressive surfers might break two or three boards a year.

Peter Mehiel