- Cody Maverick: I don't understand why everybody have to be so judgmental. I understand why mom's judgmental. I think it's 'cause she cares, *partially*. Think it's also partially 'cause, everyone else is lookin' at her like, "Hey, Cody's just a bum." "Cody's this," "Cody's that," "Cody's this."
- [pause]
- Cody Maverick: Cody's me, bro. Let me be me. When is that going to start?
- Ivan "Fire Urchin": Stepped on me, stepped on me? Are you kidding? This guy was dancing on me! I mean just look at this, broken, broken, gone, gone, broken, broken, broken...
- Tank Evans: [introducing his trophies] These are my ladies. This is Jill. This is my lady, Amy. Little Suzy. Brianna... y'know why we call her Brianna, right?
- Filmmaker: N-no...
- Tank Evans: [smirks] Yeahhhh, it's a long story.
- Chicken Joe: So it's day three. I come across Pen Guans.
- Chicken Joe: [Cut to Joe tied to a spit, carried by Pen Guans] I'm Chicken Joe. Joseph. It's long for Joe.
- [Pen Guan shouts at Joe in native language]
- Chicken Joe: That's cool.
- Chicken Joe: [cut back to Joe] They treat me as their king and put me in their hot tub. I guess their royal hot tub.
- [Cut to Joe in a boiling pot, while Pen Guins dance and cut vegetables to put on pot]
- Chicken Joe: It got all hot and steamy. It really opened up my pores.
- [Pen Guans throw vegetables in pot]
- Chicken Joe: They even served me food while I was in there. As great as it was, I still had a vision of my quest.
- [Joe steps out of pot, Pen Guans shout and throw spears]
- Big Z: Back in that day, winning was everything to me, and I knew I was gonna beat Tank. But then he starts surfing circles around me. I saw what he was doing. Times change. Well, I didn't want to go back to that beach, in front of all my fans, thinking "Look at Big Z, the loser, the has-been." So... poof! Big Z's dead. And he's gonna stay that way.
- Mikey Abromowitz: They're in it for the joy of it and the rapture and the slow-motion instant replay, which is my...
- Reggie Belafonte: Mikey, why don't you head on over to the snack bar and get yourself a big bowl of shut up?
- Filmmaker: Since we're talking about surfing, why don't you give us your thoughts about surfing?
- Cody Maverick: Surfing, surfing... Where do I start?
- Filmmaker: How about just at the beginning?
- Cody Maverick: Okay, well... So as soon as there was the first wave, right? - there was the first surfer. All they needed was, like, um, a piece of driftwood, a block of ice or something like that, and then they were off. And they were hooked, man. They were hooked. Up 'till recent times, you had your old dudes, you know, your hang-six cats, these old guys used to lay down with these huge, humongous boards. These guys were the pioneers, but nobody saw what surfing could really be until Big Z did it.
- Filmmaker: Could you tell us who Big Z was?
- Cody Maverick: Who was Big Z? You're asking the right guy. You got that far. Z is everything. Big Z is surfing. I mean, there might as well not been an ocean before Z. They invented the ocean for him. Cause he lived so hard because he wasn't afraid to live. He wasn't afraid to die. He came to Antarctica when I was just a kid. Man, it was the biggest thing that ever happened here. And suddenly there he was. Just floating over the water. Just hovering, you know, like weightless. He could've walked up to anyone, and he walks right up to me. And he gives me this awesome, one-of-a-kind Big Z necklace. And then he tells me, "You know, kid, never give up. Find a way, 'cause that's what winners do." He was the greatest. Everyone looked up to him, respected him, loved him. And one day, one day, I'm gonna be just like him.
- Mikey Abromowitz: I, am on, *so* much migraine medication you have no idea... The stress is killing me. I dunno how much longer I can last, I hafta tell you that right now!
- Lani Aliikai: [Cody and Lani wash off under a waterfall] Can I ask you something personal?
- Cody Maverick: Lani, we're in the shower together! Y'can say whatever you want.
- Edna Maverick: He was a little, teeny, small egg, he wasn't very impressive. Glen was the big egg, Cody was the small egg. He can't help it, he's... you know, that's just the way he is.
- Big Z: Look at that. Do you know what you're sitting on there? This is koa wood. The best surfboards in the world are made of that stuff.
- Cody Maverick: Yeah?
- Big Z: You got a koa board?
- Cody Maverick: I don't have a board board.
- Big Z: Well, you wanna... you wanna make one?
- Cody Maverick: Nah.
- Big Z: What? Man! I come all the way back here to give you the necklace, and now I'm offering to make you a board and you say "Nah"? Get off your lazy butt, we're making a board. Come on. It'll be the best board you ever had, I'll tell you that.
- Big Z: [Lying on his surfboard in the water with Lani and Cody in the sunset] This is what it's all about. What could be better than this?
- Big Z: Hey, everybody. Yep, it's me. It's Z. I got lost out there, but this young kid, Cody, he brought me back to shore. Thanks a lot, Cody.
- [Lani embraces Cody out of sheer joy]
- [the kids are playing with Tank's trophy]
- Tank Evans: No, no, NO! I'm telling my mom!
- [one of the kids trip and the trophy breaks]
- Arnold: Oops!
- Tank Evans: Nooooo! Lia!
- Reggie Belafonte: Hay, check this out! You wanna talk talent scouts? People find talent, I bring them back from the dead! The now living legend...
- Big Z: Reggie, shut up.
- Reggie Belafonte: What? What do you mean shut up?
- Big Z: I'm not a legend. I'm just a guy looking for a nice wave and some good friends.
- Tank Evans: I'm gonna chum the water with your head!
- Cody Maverick: Bring it on, pecker face! Let's go.
- Tank Evans: Pecker face?
- Filmmaker: Do you have any other talents?
- Cody Maverick: Heh, you mean like, singin' and dancin'? Naw, man, I just surf.
- Cody Maverick: [he and Big Z are hanging upside down] Can we do some training? Like, seriously, please?
- Big Z: What are you talking about? Whaddaya think we're doing?
- Cody Maverick: We're acting like a couple of nut jobs, that's what I think we're doing.
- Big Z: Yeah, good. You're learning.
- Tank Evans: This spot here, this is for my special lady. Lia. I'm gonna say that one more time. Lia. Oh yeah. That's a sweet, sweet lady.
- Tank's Mother: Tank! Are you polishing your trophies again?
- Tank Evans: Mom! I wasn't polishing, I was just talking to my friends!
- [to camera]
- Tank Evans: I'm gonna polish them later.
- Tank Evans: A role model? No. But I do consider myself somebody that everyone should look up to. Kids should try to pretend that they're Tank. I mean, they should try. Good luck, kids!
- Cody Maverick: [on camera] I could tell he needed some space and, you know, some time for himself. I didn't want, you know, ask him all these questions, so I just kind of stood there quietly.
- Cody Maverick: You're Big Z! I can't believe it! You're alive! You're alive!
- Cody Maverick: [on camera] That's the respectful way to go, I think.
- Big Z: [teaching Cody to carve a board] All right, look. First of all, with the grain. With the grain. You see what I'm doing here? You let the tool do the work, you see? Just like you're riding the wave, you let the wave do the work. You don't fight the wave. You can't fight these big waves.
- [last lines]
- Cody Maverick: Here I am, having a good time, riding the waves with my friends, not caring about who wins or loses but just surfing. Good old-fashioned fun, that's, well, fun! Okay, I guess you're just tired of hearing me talk about myself, so I'm off...
- [runs into the waves to surf]
- Big Z: That's the best place in the world to be. In the tube.
- Cody Maverick: Really?
- Big Z: Oh, yeah. Better than winning.
- Lani Aliikai: Oh, crap!
- [runs out to save drowning penguin]
- Cody Maverick: Oh man, I'm in love.
- Arnold: Help me, I'm drowning.
- Chicken Joe: What are you standing here next to me for? You should go talk to her.
- Cody Maverick: No way, man! I'm not gonna go talk to her.
- Chicken Joe: Dude, she's totally into you! She called you crap!
- Filmmaker: So, Cody, when you take your first wave, and the whole island's there to watch, what's it gonna be like?
- Cody Maverick: It's gonna be amazing. Honestly, it'll be the best wave of my life, and I hope the cameras are rolling because you're gonna want to watch it over and over and over and over again. It's gonna be awesome
- [cut to Maverick wiping out]
- [Cody has just raspberried at Glen]
- Glen Maverick: That's really disrespectful.
- [Cody blows another raspberry]
- Glen Maverick: I would never do that...
- Cody Maverick: Mm-hm. You just wouldn't make it out of your mouth.
- Tank Evans: [doing pushups over hot coals] Right, no, I getcha. What's winning without the losers?
- Tank Evans: [later, still doing pushups over hot coals] It feels better, when there's a lot of losers around... was, was that your question?
- Big Z: [reaches out to catch some rainwater in a water gourd in the treehouse that serves as his residence] Sure-fire remedy - learned it from an old medicine man... works every time.
- Mikey Abromowitz: You know, I used to scout for songbirds - toucans - for this musical revue in Brazil... Now that's show business.
- Glen Maverick: [offscreen] Loooooserrrrr!
- [hits Cody in the head with a snowball]
- Filmmaker: Y'know we're here to make a movie about Cody...
- Cody Maverick: Why does - does he have to be here?
- Glen Maverick: Yeah, it's gonna be great. Can I get in line now to *not* see it?
- Reggie Belafonte: Who wants to see the little guy take on the champion? Whoever rides the biggest wave wins.
- Arnold: Little guys rule!
- Arnold: [Lani saves him] Well, thanks again.
- Lani Aliikai: Alright, well this is the third time you've been unconscious this week. I just don't think it's very good for your brain.
- Arnold: I know.
- [hugs Lani]
- Edna Maverick: It really wasn't that easy for him growing up. Like I said before, he never, he never really knew his father.
- Cody Maverick: I'm not really the person to ask about it, truthfully, because I was too young to remember. I mean, look, I'm not the only kid on the island whose dad was... y'know... eaten.