Kelly Slater

And so that year I graduated high school and I went on the qualifying series, or I went on the world tour and you had to be in the top 44.

I got 43rd.

So I just made it by one spot.

That's wild.

And the guy who got 44th was a guy named Munga Berry, Michael Munga Berry from Burley Heads in Australia.

And Munga and I were surfing against each other in the second to last event of the year at Sunset Beach.

And he spun around on this wave.

He was behind me.

I was paddling out.

And I paddled over this wave.

I'm like, oh, I'm too late for this thing.

I can't go.

And Mungo was behind me.

And he spun around and barely, I don't even know if he paddled.

He just stood up on this huge wave and free fell into it.

And basically, by making it through that heat, he made it on tour.

And he ended up in the very last spot, he and I.

Yeah, different things drive you at different times.

When I was 20 years old, all I wanted to do was I wanted to be the best surfer in the world.

I wanted to be the number one surfer in the world and be a world champion like my heroes were, you know?