Rowing Quotes

169 quotes by 72 authors

Mileage makes champions — Steve Fairbairn
You alone are responsible — Mike Livingston
My dear boy, you are under a wrong impression. It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews to do long… — Steve Fairbairn
While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow. — Drew Ginn
A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the… — Drew Ginn
Gentlemen, let's go row! — Robert A. Heinlein
Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful… — Mark Van Doren
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward... — Theodore Roethke
If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it. — Michael Jordan
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and… — John Masefield
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at… — Jonah Lomu
Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural force… — Ralph Waldo Trine
Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important. — Roz Savage
Fitness - Focus - Form. — Phillip Thomas
Still loving the sport; still working on the focus. — Phillip Thomas
Let the boat work - and not me! — Phillip Thomas
The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat! — Phillip Thomas
Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow. — Phillip Thomas
When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower. — Phillip Thomas
The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or… — Phillip Thomas

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