“A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.” — Daniel James Brown Boating Copy Share Image
“Sharman Apt Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural History.” — Daniel James Brown Books Copy Share Image
“All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were, in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades.” — Daniel James Brown Poetry Copy Share Image
“Your thoughts must be directed to you and your own boat, always positive, never negative.” — Daniel James Brown Positive Copy Share Image
“Ebright yawned that his varsity was nothing to write home about—“a good average outfit,” — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“Seattle sports had once risen briefly to international prominence, in 1917, when the city’s professional hockey team, the Metropolitans, became the first… — Daniel James Brown Hockey team Copy Share Image
“the national champion California boys were an intimidating sight. Seattle reporters marveled at how sun-bronzed they looked when seen side by side… — Daniel James Brown Boys Copy Share Image
“Her father was cold and distant, more likely to cuddle the family dog than one of his own children. He believed that… — Daniel James Brown Family Copy Share Image
“The ability to yield, to bend, to give way, to accommodate, he said, was sometimes a source of strength in men as… — Daniel James Brown Greatness Copy Share Image
“Just as a skilled rider is said to become part of his horse, the skilled oarsman must become part of his boat.… — Daniel James Brown Horse Copy Share Image
“Now it came as a searing revelation that his father had not felt safe enough to live by that same simple proposition,… — Daniel James Brown Beloved son Copy Share Image
Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“after reading an article about Ulbrickson’s nutritional regimen, and contemplating his boys’ success, a horse trainer named Tom Smith would go in… — Daniel James Brown Happiness Copy Share Image
“One of the first admonitions of a good rowing coach, after the fundamentals are over, is “pull your own weight,” and the… — Daniel James Brown Rowing Copy Share Image
“for him the craft of building a boat was like religion. It wasn’t enough to master the technical details of it. You… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“It is a small but noteworthy irony that among the first Allied troops who crossed the Elbe River and met up with… — Daniel James Brown 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 Balance 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 Balance Copy Share Image
“was a shared experience—a singular thing that had unfolded in a golden sliver of time long gone, when nine good-hearted young men… — Daniel James Brown Love Copy Share Image
What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“They could not see the sprawling Sachsenhausen concentration camp under construction that summer just north of Berlin, where before long more than… — Daniel James Brown Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“A well-conditioned oarsman or oarswoman competing at the highest levels must be able to take in and consume as much as eight… — Daniel James Brown Rowing Copy Share Image
“That fall Harry Rantz abruptly returned from Canada, bought a lot in Spokane, and began to construct a new house, trying to… — Daniel James Brown Life Copy Share Image
“Standing there, watching them, it occurred to me that when Hitler watched Joe and the boys fight their way back from the… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“The revelation that one could find free food just sitting on a stump in the woods landed on Joe like a thunderbolt.… — Daniel James Brown Discovery Copy Share Image
“the Illinois Gazette, published some handy “Rules for Wives,” among them these: A good wife will always receive her husband with smiles,… — Daniel James Brown Good husband Copy Share Image
“And capitalizing on diversity is perhaps even more important when it comes to the characters of the oarsmen. A crew composed entirely… — Daniel James Brown Common core Copy Share Image
“It was when he tried to talk about 'the boat' that his words began to falter and tears welled up in his… — Daniel James Brown Together forever Copy Share Image
“I lingered a bit longer. The tug of kinship held me there, bound me to the place and to a man I… — Daniel James Brown Darkness Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down,” he told his daughter, Marilynn. “What matters is how many times you… — Daniel James Brown Children Copy Share Image
“In a sport like this—hard work, not much glory, but still popular in every century—well, there must be some beauty which ordinary… — Daniel James Brown Beauty Copy Share Image
It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“Seattle’s Hooverville Northwest of downtown, in the old Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard, tugboats belching plumes of black smoke nosed long rafts of… — Daniel James Brown Fire Copy Share Image
“It is hard to make that boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy, of course, is resistance of the… — Daniel James Brown Overcoming Copy Share Image
“They are almost all gone now - the legions of young men who saved the world in the years just before I… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“To appreciate beauty is to experience humility—to recognize that something larger and more powerful than oneself is at work in the environment.… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“They were now representatives of something much larger than themselves - a way of life, a shared set of values. Liberty was… — Daniel James Brown Fair play Copy Share Image
