Kelly Slater

It was, I felt like I had a very different intimate relationship with it.

And I was, I felt like I was learning things about the ocean and waves and surfing and how to, how to go about it that no one had ever known or something.

That's how it felt to me, you know, that's not to say I felt like as a young kid, I was better than my heroes or something, but I felt like,

I had this keen sense that my relationship with surfing and waves was my own.

I played football.

I sort of told the story to a lot of friends that my dad was our football coach, and I would skip practice to go surfing.

That makes your dad really happy.

That's how you know if your dads are cool with what you do.

Yeah, he was fine.

Whatever.

He was like, all right, you can skip practice.

But I played basketball and baseball and football, and I loved them all.

I was a big baseball and football fan as a kid and knew everything about the sports.

I was actually quite good at football, and I was quite good in the field at baseball.

I wasn't a great hitter, but

I really understood.

I could see the plays almost in slow motion, you know, because I loved the game.

I studied it so much as a kid.

Right.

Both the games.