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Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to…

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Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times…
I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning…
One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports…
Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.
The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten…
White Hot Concentration is the unappreciated fruit of hard ligting, especially squats. When your in the squat rack, with a serious amount…
Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their…
Coach's Rule: never admit a lack of experience or knowledge. Carry on at all times as though you've guided a hundred champion…
Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of…
Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer…
The window of X Factor opportunity opens up in the closing seconds of a race-you might be sprinting at the time or…
The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul. It's your…

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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's… — Nolan Bushnell
It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand… — Reuben Archer Torrey
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not… — William Osler
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned… — Robin G. Collingwood
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for… — Abraham Lincoln
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is… — H. L. Mencken
Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner. — Theodore Roethke
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. — Edward Weston
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Every Chess master was once a beginner — Irving Chernev
Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any… — Ray Bradbury

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