“Standing there, watching them, it occurred to me that when Hitler watched Joe and the boys fight their way back from the rear of the field to sweep ahead of Italy and Germany seventy-five years ago, he saw, but did… — Daniel James Brown 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 two hundred thousand Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gypsies, and eventually Soviet prisoners of war, Polish civilians, and Czech… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“The trick would be to find which few of them had the potential for raw power, the nearly superhuman stamina, the indomitable willpower, and… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“But the heat and the drought were in some ways the least of it. On May 9 a colossal dust storm had swung out… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The wood, Pocock murmured, taught us about survival, about overcoming difficulty, about prevailing over adversity, but it also taught us something about the underlying… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were, in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades.” — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.” — 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 strove together,… — Daniel James Brown 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 Russian troops… — 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. That night… — 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 had to… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“It was when he tried to talk about 'the boat' that his words began to falter and tears welled up in his eyes...Finally, watching… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“And capitalizing on diversity is perhaps even more important when it comes to the characters of the oarsmen. A crew composed entirely of eight… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“Just as a skilled rider is said to become part of his horse, the skilled oarsman must become part of his boat. —George Yeoman… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“I lingered a bit longer. The tug of kinship held me there, bound me to the place and to a man I had never… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
