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“I am living proof that money cannot buy friendship.”

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Doris Duke, born on November 22, 1912, and died on October 28, 1993, was an American horticulturist renowned for her passion and collection of tropical plants. more

“People turned around and came back to watch. An enormous crowd formed. Ampol Oil took films. When we left Australia, we also left our boards for the Aussies. Those films were shown all over the country to different clubs. The films and our boards became the basis for the modern surfboard movement in Australia.”

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Book:Da Bull: Life Over the Edge

Source: Da Bull: Life Over the Edge

“We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women. I saw these guys going up and down the coast on surf trips, drinking and bagging girls, and all I could think of was 'What a neat life!'”

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Book:Da Bull: Life Over the Edge

Source: Da Bull: Life Over the Edge

“After becoming established as a surfboard manufacturer and surf film producer whose films were shown on TV, all of a sudden all the teachers and counselors who wanted nothing to do with my ass during school were wanting to kiss it. They'd be interviewed by a newspaper of magazine and their tone would change. 'Oh yes, I knew Greg Noll. He was in my class. Fine, upstanding young man.' What bullshit.”

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Author:Greg Noll

“I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked around the Bay there, and somebody grabbed a board and went surfing, and it looked so good the rest of us guys said, 'Hey, we got to get in on this.'”

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Author:Greg Noll

“With some guys, drugs became a way of life. They went through tremendous personality changes, or they died. Drugs didn't do them any good. In the same way, at certain times in my life, alcohol didn't do me any good. A lot of kids today seem to be taking themselves, their health and their education more seriously, and that's good.”

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Book:Da Bull: Life Over the Edge

Source: Da Bull: Life Over the Edge

“I didn't want to be like a punch-drunk fighter, going around and reliving the big moment.”

Want Moments Bigs Drunk Fighter

Author:Greg Noll

“Everything started coming into my head, ... I was the youngest world champ and now I'm the oldest world champ; it's been seven years since I won my last title and this is my seventh one ... but all those numbers and things are not as important as the feeling.”

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Author:Kelly Slater

“I didn't think that wave was going to offer a ton, ... But the wave just held form, and I was able to get a lot out of it.”

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Author:Kelly Slater

“This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.”

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Author:Kelly Slater

“I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.”

Feels Stills Surfing

Author:Kelly Slater

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