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
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
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding… — Frederick Carl Frieseke Copy Share Image
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other,… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
If anyone here is secretly dreaming of making the Olympics, I can tell you exactly how to do it, two words: Sustained… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
“Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They’re the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack.… — Daniel James Brown 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
...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
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 window of X Factor opportunity opens up in the closing seconds of a race-you might be sprinting at the time or… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a… — Stefan Kieszling 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times… — Brad Alan Lewis 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
I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told… — 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
