Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going — Blaine Lee Copy Share Image
A combination of cardio exercises on the rowing machine, treadmill, elliptical, or The Gauntlet will help blast fat in the lower half… — David Kirsch Copy Share Image
In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The… — Jim Dietz Copy Share Image
The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied… — Phillip Thomas Copy Share Image
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport… — Anita DeFrantz Copy Share Image
Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things — Mike Teti Copy Share Image
As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I… — Cameron Winklevoss Copy Share Image
“If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing then you start looking to bail out the first time the… — Lou Holtz Jr Copy Share Image
Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I like the stroke seat. I want to be there. I want to have the race come down to a short distance… — Chris Ahrens Copy Share Image
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
“The tools a competitive rower uses to prepare to race are useful for the everyday rower, as well. They include double workouts… — D.P. Ordway Copy Share Image
Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
...well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but… — Daniel Topolski Copy Share Image
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
“A well-conditioned oarsman or oarswoman competing at the highest levels must be able to take in and consume as much as eight… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to… — Mike Livingston Copy Share Image
When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are… — Vilhelm Moberg Copy Share Image
You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water.… — Jim Dietz Copy Share Image
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks,… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be… — Drew Ginn Copy Share Image
I've ended up water skiing behind the Stanford rowing team as well as water skiing behind an excavator while it swung around… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
If you like basketball, you enjoy watching good basketball. And if you don't like watching good basketball, go watch rowing. — Diana Taurasi Copy Share Image
On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat… — Tyler Winklevoss Copy Share Image
After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that,… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all,… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Whatever sport I played - rugby, rowing - there were always naturally talented people who were better than me. — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
I tried my hardest to stay fit and active during quarantine. I went to my PT office four to five times a… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
