Duke Kahanamoku famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.
-- Duke Kahanamoku

#Guy #Surf #Wave
In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world's center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You'll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.
-- Duke Kahanamoku

#Real #Believe #Mean
I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.
-- Duke Kahanamoku

#Mean #Winter #Snow
Out of water, I am nothing.
-- Duke Kahanamoku

#Water #Surfing
Out of the water, I am nothing.
-- Duke Kahanamoku

#Water
I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.
-- Duke Kahanamoku

#Rain #Frozen #Hills
Don't talk - keep it in your heart.
-- Duke Kahanamoku

#Heart
Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki.
-- Duke Kahanamoku

#Night #Years #Water
I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.
-- Duke Kahanamoku

#Swimming #Fishes

I'm not playing for anybody but the guys in this locker room.
I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.
If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn't even surf.
I love having the opportunity to surf.
Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.
It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.
But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.
If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

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