“The challenges they had faced together had taught them humility—the need to subsume their individual egos for the sake of the boat… — Daniel James Brown Humility Copy Share Image
“It is hard to make that boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy, of course, is resistance of the… — Daniel James Brown Overcoming Copy Share Image
“They could not see the sprawling Sachsenhausen concentration camp under construction that summer just north of Berlin, where before long more than… — Daniel James Brown Concentration camp Copy Share Image
What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“was a shared experience—a singular thing that had unfolded in a golden sliver of time long gone, when nine good-hearted young men… — Daniel James Brown Love Copy Share Image
“Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They’re the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack.… — Daniel James Brown Balance Copy Share Image
“They are almost all gone now - the legions of young men who saved the world in the years just before I… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“for him the craft of building a boat was like religion. It wasn’t enough to master the technical details of it. You… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“The revelation that one could find free food just sitting on a stump in the woods landed on Joe like a thunderbolt.… — Daniel James Brown Discovery 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 Rowing Copy Share Image
“One of the first admonitions of a good rowing coach, after the fundamentals are over, is “pull your own weight,” and the… — Daniel James Brown Rowing Copy Share Image
Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack.… — Daniel James Brown Balance Copy Share Image
“It is a small but noteworthy irony that among the first Allied troops who crossed the Elbe River and met up with… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
