"The oars game me power but also taught…" — Barry S. Strauss

"The oars game me power but also taught me humility."

— Barry S. Strauss

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