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
Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the… — Ralph Waldo Trine 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
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
Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I had a friend named Vasil Rusev in my rowing classes. I've always liked that name. When I first started in WWE,… — Rusev 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
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
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
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
“I stopped rowing for a moment to glug down some water, but it was warm, tasted of plastic, and failed to refresh.… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people… — Hugh Laurie 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
Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past,… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot… — Tori Murden Copy Share Image
One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports… — 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
“This is very simple in the world of chicks: some are hoochies, some are not, and some should never try to be.… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten… — 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
It's great to see the World Rowing Championships returning to U.S. soil for the first time in 25 years. I am even… — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
Your first duty is to be yourself. You can't always get what you want, but if you try you just might get… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I… — Cameron 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
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
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
“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 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
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an… — Jonah Lomu Copy Share Image
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 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
“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 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
For me, becoming the best you can be in something that you love, like rowing, is incredibly challenging, and what you learn… — Tyler Winklevoss 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
[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all… — Daniel Topolski Copy Share Image
I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would… — 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 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/i/3e1/brad-alan-lewis-16353_blink_a-man-goes-through-many-changes-in-2000_2660025.jpg)
![“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/i/42f/melanie-lynskey-11682_active_i-m-pretty-active-so-i-wasn-t-really-wor_2659011.jpg)
![“[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a…” quote by Daniel Topolski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d1/daniel-topolski-59183_all-alone_he-would-drive-his-sculling-boat-through_1446107.png)
