"Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic… One lives in… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights.… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
White Hot Concentration is the unappreciated fruit of hard ligting, especially squats. When your in the squat rack, with a serious amount… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
If you ask why start-ups outperform established enterprises when it comes to catching the next wave, the answer is that they are… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us.… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
“and God was there like an island I had not rowed to, still ignorant of Him, my arms, and my legs worked,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women — John Hersey Copy Share Image
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well, Remember when we used to row. Yuh used to drop yuh hint an mi think yuh did a gyow but mi… — Lady Saw Copy Share Image
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday… — Brad Alan Lewis 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
When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are… — Vilhelm Moberg Copy Share Image
Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things — Mike Teti 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
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
Coach's Rule: never admit a lack of experience or knowledge. Carry on at all times as though you've guided a hundred champion… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
In terms of pure physical effort, today was probably as hard as I've worked in any part. I spent the morning rowing,… — Charlton Heston 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
Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is]… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The… — Homer Copy Share Image
The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The… — Jim Dietz Copy Share Image
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the… — Barry S. Strauss 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
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
I like the stroke seat. I want to be there. I want to have the race come down to a short distance… — Chris Ahrens Copy Share Image
![“[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic… One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like…” quote by V. S. Pritchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/692/v-s-pritchett-13789_asphalt_london-is-like-the-sight-of-a-heavy-sea_2888600.jpg)
![“A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. [We]…” quote by Brad Alan Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e1/brad-alan-lewis-16353_blink_a-man-goes-through-many-changes-in-2000_2660025.jpg)
![“In terms of pure physical effort, today was probably as hard as I've worked in any part. I spent the morning rowing, including the change of speeds Arrius [the Roman commander] test Judah with. A real bone-breaker.” quote by Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/be2/charlton-heston-5386_bones_in-terms-of-pure-physical-effort-today-w_2793655.jpg)
![“Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces.” quote by David Halberstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/35c/david-halberstam-9032_cameras_physically-rowing-was-remarkable-resista_2954969.jpg)
