Dorian ""Doc"" Paskowitz
It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go make memories; beautiful memories. Because when the time comes to go, you won't go alone.Collection: Beautiful
Health is more than the mere absence of disease, it's the presence of a superior state of well being, a pizzazz, a vitality that has to be worked for each and every day of your life. You cannot get it in a bottle or from Dr. Phil. Its got to be gotten through diet and execise and rest and recreation and attitudes of mind working all together every day of your life and then, young men can become supermen and old men can become older.Collection: Attitude
There is a wisdom in the wave - high-born, beautiful - for those who would but paddle out.Collection: Beautiful
Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.Collection: Vitality
Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.Collection: Love Life
It's easier to die when you have lived than it is to die when you haven't.Collection: Easier
The greatest thing in life is health.Collection: Things In Life
When I kept surfing, surfing kept me.Collection: Surfing
I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.Collection: Want
The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.Collection: Surfing
Health is survival. But survival with style and class.Collection: Class
A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.Collection: Children
The real enemy is not fat but us. We are the misusers; we are the greedy ones. If we have no better sense than to purposefully destroy ourselves, it is no wonder that nature punishes us with vile diseases and calls in our maker long before their time. Nature remembers every extra bite of cherry pie, T-bone steak, fried chicken, pizza.Collection: Real
Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.Collection: Men
Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.Collection: Medicine
Once I learned to swim, I learned that there were waves.Collection: Swim
My favorite toy or game has been the ocean. My real passion is for saltwater.Collection: Real
Love really makes the world go round, but sex makes love go round.Collection: Sex
God loves happy people.Collection: People
I'm one of the few dumb Jewish doctors.Collection: Doctors
I think it is easy to be a doctor. There are a hell of a lot more doctors than there are guys riding big Pipeline.Collection: Thinking
Health begets Spirit.Collection: Spirit
Wisdom comes from intent, experience, and finding courage.Collection: Findings
Everything that mattered, I learned from surfing.Collection: Surfing