Top 38 Joel Parkinson Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Joel Parkinson

#1. Anything can happen at Pipeline; it's one of those waves where the most amazing wave can come through in one minute, and then nothing can happen for an hour.

Joel Parkinson

#2. You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout.

Joel Parkinson

#3. You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.

Joel Parkinson

#4. As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

Joel Parkinson

#5. Punk ... was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.

David Byrne

#6. True dreamers are both geniuses and madmen. Most lands can tolerate only a few, and those die young.

N.K. Jemisin

#7. The righteous shall rejoice.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. (Brigit on getting a splinter)
"Such particles are frightfully exasperating to extricate painlessly."
Bracy let out a low sigh, "There she goes again.

Nicole Sager

#9. I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.

Joel Parkinson

#10. If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.

Joel Parkinson

#11. I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential.

Joel Parkinson

#12. Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

Kathleen Norris

#13. I'm a basic steak-fish-salad kind of guy.

Joel Parkinson

#14. I don't mind cold water. I mean, it's fine. Wetsuits will serve you these days; it doesn't really matter.

Joel Parkinson

#15. The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug.

Edward S. Herman

#16. The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.

Carlos Castaneda

#17. When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I've always had fun in South Africa.

Joel Parkinson

#18. I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I've learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive - and it seems to be working for me.

Joel Parkinson

#19. My favorite meal to make is seared ahi, and my wife does the most amazing pear salad.

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#20. Our attitude to people determines their attitude to us.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Cats act with their eyes. They are the small, silent film actors of their time, and they are vastly underrated.

Jenny Lawson

#22. Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Joel Parkinson

#23. I've been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title.

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#24. It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

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#25. I guess you're only as good as the waves.

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#26. I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when I'm competing.

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#27. As long as I'm getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

Joel Parkinson

#28. It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave.

Joel Parkinson

#29. It's true. Happiness is a big thing.

Joel Parkinson

#30. It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another.

Joel Parkinson

#31. First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I.

Swami Vivekananda

#32. Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.

Joel Parkinson

#33. You only need two waves in a heat, so I try and keep my surfs short and sweet and not too draining. Keep them intense and try and get the two best waves I can.

Joel Parkinson