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Barry S. Strauss has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes…
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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn…
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Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and…
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If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that,…
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Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
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So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into…
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Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you…
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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the…
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The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the…
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When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights.…
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Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as…
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A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
— Homer
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So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.
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The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you…
— Barry S. Strauss
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
— Anne Carson
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. . I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.” Jessica…
— Loretta Chase
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Tell me what it is, or prepare to eat harpoon.
— Daniel Handler
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All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the…
— Herman Melville
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Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Tell me my heart beats a war drum that my eyes are not just armies but my spine is a harpoon.
— Buddy Wakefield
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We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
— John Hope
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Nothing kills passion faster than an exploding harpoon in the guts
— Lara Flores
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