Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. — Jim Dietz Copy Share Image
Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain. — Daniel Topolski Copy Share Image
Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain. — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
If you do the treadmill or elliptical all the time, try adding the rowing machine or stair climber, maybe get a new… — David Kirsch Copy Share Image
Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important. — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
Make sure everybody in your boat is rowing and not drilling holes when you're not looking.know your circle .. — Anonymous 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
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. — Nancy Greene Copy Share Image
When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“I stopped rowing for a moment to glug down some water, but it was warm, tasted of plastic, and failed to refresh.… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
“The children had been using these spatulas as oars, but rowing a boat is very hard work, particularly if one’s traveling companions… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
My dad's Welsh and my mum's Irish, and they're always rowing. If I went in and said that I'd been working with… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
“Wild Nights—Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile—the winds— To a heart in port— Done with… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national… — Brad Alan Lewis 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
“Round the world and home again That's the sailor's way Faster faster, faster faster There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always… — Deborah Harkness 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
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
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks,… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water.… — Jim Dietz Copy Share Image
You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to… — Mike Livingston 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
I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain. — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going — Blaine Lee Copy Share Image
A combination of cardio exercises on the rowing machine, treadmill, elliptical, or The Gauntlet will help blast fat in the lower half… — David Kirsch 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
Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions. — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
