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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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