Nischintya: Both times he was in Hawaii, Prabhupada talked about surfers. He said, “You say surfer, I say sufferer.” Every devotee who was a surfer told me Prabhupada looked right at him when he said it. I laughed at that because there were so many surfer devotees. But they all say that Prabhupada looked right at them when he said, “You say surfer, and I say sufferer.”
Source: Remembrances by Sidhanta Das – Folio Vedabase