During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices.… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
I was rowing the boat alone against a tide, running against an incumbent in 2013. — Elise Stefanik Copy Share Image
It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae Copy Share Image
If you like basketball, you enjoy watching good basketball. And if you don't like watching good basketball, go watch rowing. — Diana Taurasi Copy Share Image
The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile ... — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
My dear boy, you are under a wrong impression. It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews… — Steve Fairbairn Copy Share Image
The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain. — Daniel Topolski Copy Share Image
Unlike boxers-or any professional athlete for that matter-rowers have little motivation to do it longer than necessary. With a modest amount of… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I've ended up water skiing behind the Stanford rowing team as well as water skiing behind an excavator while it swung around… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Anyone who has not rowed in a really close Boat Race cannot comprehend the level of the pain. — Daniel Topolski Copy Share Image
When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
I love rowing machines and I like assault bikes because they just whoop up on you. — George Kittle Copy Share Image
Like any good drug, anger can mask all reality. But anger is not an easy emotion to call up on demand, which… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed… — Mike Livingston Copy Share Image
Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.' — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport… — Anita DeFrantz Copy Share Image
“The Head of the Charles in Cambridge, Mass., is the great American crew event, athletically and socially. It occurs the second weekend… — Lisa Birnbach Copy Share Image
