“One of the first admonitions of a good rowing coach, after the fundamentals are over, is “pull your own weight,” and the… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes… — Barry McGuigan Copy Share Image
You must approach each test with the seriousness and passion that you would use to prepare to challenge your death. You must… — Mike Livingston Copy Share Image
Race for the pschological advantage. Sit up tall, pull in high, stay within the margins of power, and they will inevitably look… — Christopher Allsopp Copy Share Image
Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I… — Bryan Volpenhein Copy Share Image
In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with… — Bryan Volpenhein 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
Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, the next few minutes would be the most hellishly exciting in my life. Grinding pain and killer fatigue waited… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not… — David Halberstam 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
“A well-conditioned oarsman or oarswoman competing at the highest levels must be able to take in and consume as much as eight… — Daniel James Brown 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
Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
“How often have I watched, and longed to imitate when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels. — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I remember, rowing took me forever and it took me so much time and coaching to get it right. — Mat Fraser Copy Share Image
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row. — Mike Teti Copy Share Image
Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“Rowing against the current or running against the wind is not going to make you a successful person because success is achieved… — JOHN TASKINSOY Copy Share Image
I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by… — Jenna Wortham 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
MCP, maximum controled pressure. No tomorrow, no waiting, nothing beyond the moment. We seek the perfect balance-total abandon on the drive, total… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
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![“I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."” quote by Melanie Lynskey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/42f/melanie-lynskey-11682_active_i-m-pretty-active-so-i-wasn-t-really-wor_2659011.jpg)
