Rowing Quotes

Let the boat work - and not me!

— Phillip Thomas

The GLORY is in the TEAM, NOT the INDIVIDUAL.

— Sean Sullivan

,,Writing is rowing with one hand ,,,

— Lotus

“I fancy a bit of rowing.”

— Jodi Ellen Malpas

I am very proud of rowing the Atlantic Ocean.

— Ben Fogle

Fitness - Focus - Form.

— Phillip Thomas

Gentlemen, let's go row!

— Robert A. Heinlein

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

— Barry S. Strauss

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

— Kenichi Ohmae

“In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?”

— Dan Brown

I find rowing very boring, I've got to be honest.

— Tony Pulis

To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row.

— Mike Teti

Go as hard as you can on the first piece and then pray that you get switched. Repeat.

— Mike Teti

There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing

— Barry S. Strauss

I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.

— Hugh Laurie

“We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.”

— Christie Watson

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

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the…

— Clare Balding

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

— Nancy Greene

Anyone who has not rowed in a really close Boat Race cannot comprehend the level of the pain.

— Daniel Topolski

Make sure everybody in your boat is rowing and not drilling holes when you're not looking.know your circle ..

— Anonymous

Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.

— Mary Pilon

“The bottom line was that while everyone was rowing the boat, to use Andrew’s analogy, there was no forward movement.”

— Ed Catmull

Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.

— Eric Bana

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

“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

A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of…

— Lewis Carroll

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an…

— Jonah Lomu

Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a…

— Rosemary Mahoney

“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

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

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

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

“and God was there like an island I had not rowed to, still ignorant of Him, my arms, and my legs worked,…

— Anne Sexton

“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

“Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I…

— Tim Powers

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

Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You…

— Bernie Glassman

Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called 'the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river,…

— Stefan Kieszling

As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an…

— Brad Alan Lewis