Rowing Quotes

169 quotes by 72 authors

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts — Roger Moore
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging… — Edward Abbey
When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be… — Vilhelm Moberg
If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any… — Patrick Lencioni
I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely… — Barry McGuigan
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. — Nancy Greene
In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't… — Bryan Volpenhein
Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football… — David Halberstam
In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not… — Jim Dietz
Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. — Jim Dietz
If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish,… — Jim Dietz
The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing. — Mooji
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his… — Thomas Merton
Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers... — Walt Whitman
I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased the pace? You… — R. C. Lehmann
I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic… — Brad Alan Lewis
Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded… — Homer
On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot long boat made… — Tori Murden
I have come to the conclusion that rowing alone won't bring top of the line erg scores. The two are really completely different. The motion… — Xeno Muller

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