"If rowing is a trial then the ergometer……" — 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, because the numbers do not lie."

— Barry S. Strauss

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19 Quotes by Barry S. Strauss

Barry S. Strauss has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what…
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…
Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise,…
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…
Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only…
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies…
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost…
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores…
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I…
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how…

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More Courtroom Quotes

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If I have learned one thing from life, it is that race is the engine that drives the political Left.… — Ward Connerly
Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin… — Eric Holder
The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge. — Uche Okafor
Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted… — Nelson Mandela
We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea… — Rob Halford
I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice… — Steven Seagal

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