Barry S. Strauss

The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get…

— Barry S. Strauss

It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of…

— Barry S. Strauss

When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice…

— Barry S. Strauss

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

— Barry S. Strauss

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn…

— Barry S. Strauss

If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that,…

— Barry S. Strauss

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

— Barry S. Strauss

The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you…

— Barry S. Strauss

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

Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you…

— Barry S. Strauss

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

In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all,…

— Barry S. Strauss

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

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

“Desperate men are easy to inspire but difficult to reassure.”

— Barry S. Strauss

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

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

The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

— Barry S. Strauss

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

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