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"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't…

— Judy Blume

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

— Nancy Greene

“Rowing is perhaps the toughest of sports. Once the race starts, there are no time-outs, no substitutions. It calls upon the limits of human…

— Daniel James Brown

To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...

— Theodore Roethke

Mileage makes champions

— Steve Fairbairn

Make sure everybody in your boat is rowing and not drilling holes when you're not looking.know your circle ..

— Anonymous

Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer driver's know:…

— Brad Alan Lewis

Osho used me and Shunyo (my girlfriend at the time) as an example of how he envisioned men and women should relate. He shared…

— Swami Anand Milarepa

On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat Race. That…

— Tyler Winklevoss

“This is very simple in the world of chicks: some are hoochies, some are not, and some should never try to be. It's no…

— Tori Amos

You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth…

— Brad Alan Lewis

“There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is…

— Roald Dahl

Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like…

— Brad Alan Lewis

Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.

— Brad Alan Lewis

The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals…

— Barry S. Strauss