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> [The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes to win races is the ability to reach inside and pull out something to keep you going -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/the-rower-need-to-know-technique-and-has-to-be-in-shape-he-won-t/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

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## More by Barry S. Strauss

> [The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/the-greek-in-me-wanted-to-know-what-it-felt-like-to-pull-an-oar-the/)

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> [It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/it-s-the-quintessential-greek-sport-harmonious-competitive-agonizing/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/when-you-are-on-the-erg-your-mind-is-too-busy-to-pay-attention-to-the/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/ergometer-is-greek-for-work-meter/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/the-greatest-poet-who-ever-wrote-about-rowing-is-virgil-the-greatest/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/if-rowing-is-a-trial-then-the-ergometer-is-the-courtroom-the-meter-is/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/there-is-a-place-where-cerebral-an-corporeal-meet-they-call-it-rowing/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/the-feel-of-a-good-row-stays-with-you-hours-afterward-your-muscles/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/so-to-the-lyre-of-orpheus-they-struck-with-their-oars-the-furious/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/rowing-it-was-pointed-out-was-a-sport-that-risked-few-injuries-so-it/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/think-of-aerobics-plus-weight-lifting-minus-the-music-or-camaraderie/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/in-college-i-was-an-editor-on-the-student-daily-to-the-extent-that-i/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/the-single-sculler-alone-on-the-river-at-dawn-or-spotlighted-in-his/)

[Barry S. Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-s-strauss/)

> [When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/when-you-are-rowing-well-and-hard-the-rhythm-of-the-stroke-takes-over/)

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> [“Desperate men are easy to inspire but difficult to reassure.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-s-strauss/desperate-men-are-easy-to-inspire-but-difficult-to-reassure/)

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