Sentence examples for catch a good wave from inspiring English sources

"And they said, 'Well, to be successful in politics, you have to be a good politician and you have to catch a good wave, just like surfing.' " And the wave he hopes to ride all the way to the White House this time around is the economy.

Whoever has tried surfing at any point in their lives know something very well: There is, indeed, a right time to catch a good wave.

Chances were I'd eventually catch a good egg.

Holding high the torch, and rowed to the mile-long beach in a surf boat whose five-man lifesaver crew caught a good last wave, Coles said, "This is a wonderful feeling -- my biggest thrill".

Slightly farther north, a surfer I didn't recognize, riding a needle-nosed pale-blue board, caught a good-sized wave.

"I caught a pretty good wave," he recalled, nearly doubling his substantial net worth within three years before heavy tax bills and the market skid brought him back to reality.

All because he wanted a good wave.

Pick out a good wave.

"He really caught a good game," Scioscia said.

"You get to be with your friends and catch really good waves," said Nagé Melamed, 9, a fifth grader at Hanalei Elementary school.

But the ability to catch the good waves while avoiding wipeouts seems to have translated from the beach to the engineering quad for Tom Katsouleas, who has led the Pratt School of Engineering for the past seven years.