Stefan Kieszling Quotes

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• I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.
• We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of…
• Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a number of generally…
• Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea…
• The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile ...
• Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my…
• [Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they wanted, and then…
• Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of infinite possibilities separating…
• Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will.
• Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory…
• For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet we had no good idea…
• As a competitor, winner or loser, one crosses the line into limbo. The adrenaline is gone, the anticipation is gone. The verdict is either comforting…
• That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were…
• Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is…

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