Alive Quote by Barry S. Strauss

The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals…

— Barry S. Strauss

It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea…

— Barry S. Strauss

When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that…

— Barry S. Strauss

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

— Barry S. Strauss

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention…

— 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…

— Barry S. Strauss

There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing

— Barry S. Strauss

The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and…

— Barry S. Strauss

So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here…

— Barry S. Strauss

Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it…

— Barry S. Strauss

Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form…

— Barry S. Strauss

In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw…

— Barry S. Strauss