Rowing Quotes

169 quotes by 72 authors

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter' — Barry S. Strauss
So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and… — Barry S. Strauss
Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right. — Barry S. Strauss
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and… — Barry S. Strauss
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure… — Barry S. Strauss
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence… — Barry S. Strauss
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled… — Barry S. Strauss
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to… — Barry S. Strauss
A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive… — Barry S. Strauss
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes… — Barry S. Strauss
It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with… — Barry S. Strauss
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing — Barry S. Strauss
In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only… — Barry S. Strauss
When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they… — Barry S. Strauss
Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge. — Allen Rosenberg
Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a number of generally… — Stefan Kieszling
Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea… — Stefan Kieszling
One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this… — Brad Alan Lewis
Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine. — Brad Alan Lewis

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