Bed Quote by Brad Alan Lewis

“Rowing is perhaps the toughest of sports. Once the race starts, there are no time-outs, no substitutions. It calls upon the limits of human…

— Daniel James Brown

Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an…

— Stefan Kieszling

“If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts…

— Lou Holtz Jr

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.

— Anne Sexton

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

— Brad Alan Lewis

Once I was asked to do celebrity rowing, where they taught people who had been to Oxford or Cambridge to row against each other.…

— Nicola Walker

“Life tests us to see our level of endurance.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

— Madame de Stael

As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting…

— Brad Alan Lewis

“One of the first admonitions of a good rowing coach, after the fundamentals are over, is “pull your own weight,” and the young oarsman…

— Daniel James Brown

Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

— Allen Rosenberg