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
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
As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied… — Phillip Thomas 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
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
I don't think it hurts to have rowing featured in a movie that's in the race for the best pictures. If it… — Tyler Winklevoss Copy Share Image
As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
“The tools a competitive rower uses to prepare to race are useful for the everyday rower, as well. They include double workouts… — D.P. Ordway Copy Share Image
The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now.… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Right next to my bedroom, Dad made a chin-up bar with a rowing machine and a treadmill. From there, as years went… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing then you start looking to bail out the first time the… — Lou Holtz Jr Copy Share Image
Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat… — Chris Ahrens Copy Share Image
For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet we had… — Stefan Kieszling 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
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
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
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
...well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but… — Daniel Topolski Copy Share Image
A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be… — Drew Ginn 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
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
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
If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that,… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat… — Tyler Winklevoss Copy Share Image
After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I tried my hardest to stay fit and active during quarantine. I went to my PT office four to five times a… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
Whatever sport I played - rugby, rowing - there were always naturally talented people who were better than me. — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
Don't make a whole to-do about it. Don't get down on yourself be- cause you're not an expert rower; don't start reading… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and… — Mike Teti 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
In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all,… — Barry S. Strauss 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
Nice? It's the ONLY thing, said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke. Believe me, my young friend,… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
