Barry S. Strauss Quotes

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• The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes to win races…
• The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
• The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to…
• Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as…
• If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers…
• Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
• So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and…
• Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.
• Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and…
• The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure…
• When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence…
• Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled…
• The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to…
• A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive…
• The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes…
• It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with…
• There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
• In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only…
• When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they…

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