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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…
• The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
• The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn…
• Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and…
• If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that,…
• Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
• So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into…
• Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you…
• Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the…
• The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the…
• When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights.…
• 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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