Games Quote by Barry S. Strauss Download Open image “The oars game me power but also taught me humility.” — Barry S. Strauss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Games Humility Oar Power Rowing Taught
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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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
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