“When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don’t need to see the silverpike to know they are there.”

“I want to get out in the water. I wanted to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.”

“I don’t need to be reminded that we’re up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we’re the gods-damned sharks.”

“I don't believe in this nonsense about time. Time is just common, it's like water for a fish. Everybody's in this water, nobody gets out of it, or if he does the same thing happens to him that happens to the fish, he dies. And you know what happens in this water, time? The big fish eat the little fish. That's all. The big fish eat the little fish and the ocean doesn't care.”

“The water we hold sacred is not some abstract image or fantasy of Water, but the real stuff that we need to drink and bathe and grow our gardens, that provides the crucial habitat for fish and plants and thousands of other creatures, that is the Earth's literal life blood.”

“They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.”

“You don’t have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.”

“From my point of view, what’s beautiful in the sport is something you don’t need to know too much about tactics or anything to see. If you find something beautiful, you don’t need to be an expert to know it. It’s like ballet.”

“We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.”

“If you don’t know where you are heading, no employer is going to hire you to give you a lift to ‘Don’t know where land’!”