Andy Irons Quotes

#1. In my view, the combination of the first-person method with the third-person method offers the promise of a real advance in the scientific study of consciousness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.

Andy Irons

#3. If you dont see me on tour, its because I have found happiness away from winning, and that might be the biggest achievement I could ever accomplish.

Andy Irons

#4. What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?

Jerry Seinfeld

#5. Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

George Farquhar

#6. I recall the Scriptures into my mind, therefore, I have hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Yesterday I lost not only a competitor, friend but most importantly a brother. Andy Irons you will be in my heart for eternity! R.I.P AI

Mick Fanning

#8. Living a happy life is my main priority. You guys may think I am selfish for "wasting my talent" by staying away from events for a bit, but I am finally at a comfortable place where I can honestly say, if you guys see me out on tour again it's because I am there to win, and I'm going to go 100%.

Andy Irons

#9. The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

Roger L'Estrange

#10. Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.

Jeff Davidson

#11. Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul ... My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

Vincent Van Gogh

#12. You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.

Andy Irons

#13. Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.

Joe Frazier

#14. I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.

Andy Irons

#15. He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#16. Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.

Jon Richardson

#17. Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

Nelson Mandela

#18. Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. She guarded herself like a secret.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#20. I'm the one with the dick and you're the one that wants it,' he gently said. 'It's not complicated.

C.C. Gibbs