"One training device is the ergometer. I never……" — Brad Alan Lewis
"One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!"
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40 Quotes by Brad Alan Lewis
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Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a…
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I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each…
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One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few…
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White Hot Concentration is the unappreciated fruit of hard ligting, especially squats. When your in the squat rack, with a…
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Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest…
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Coach's Rule: never admit a lack of experience or knowledge. Carry on at all times as though you've guided a…
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Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs,…
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Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important.…
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The window of X Factor opportunity opens up in the closing seconds of a race-you might be sprinting at the…
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The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul.…
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Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain…
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I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.
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The chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run…
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Won't it be nice when all this beastly killing is over, and we can enjoy ourselves and not hurt anyone?…
— Unknown Author
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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing…
— N. T. Wright
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The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks…
— John Masefield
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Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training…
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A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is…
— Edward Lear
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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
— Alan Bleasdale
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I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children…
— John Mortimer
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Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the…
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