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> [When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.](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/)

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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/)

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

> [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/)

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> [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/)

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

> [“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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