"When you are rowing well and hard, the……" — Barry S. Strauss
"When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end."
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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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If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury…
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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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The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost…
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Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I…
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