"Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded……" — 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 easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining."
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19 Quotes by Barry S. Strauss
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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…
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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever…
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Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise,…
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If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury…
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Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
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So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge…
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Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only…
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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies…
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The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost…
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When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores…
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The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how…
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