Rowing Quotes
169 quotes by 72 authors
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Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts
— Roger Moore
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
— Nancy Greene
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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
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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
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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
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Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream.
— Jim Dietz
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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
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The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing.
— Mooji
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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 building, truning them into fantastic…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Rowing Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 169 Rowing Quotes, led by these top contributors: