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Rowing Quotes by Barry S. Strauss
- The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes to win races…
- 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 its attention to…
- Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as…
- If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers…
- 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 waves. Here and…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
- 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…
- 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…
More Rowing Quotes
- 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… — Edward Abbey
- When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are… — Unknown Author
- If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in 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… — 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… — Bryan Volpenhein
- Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly… — David Halberstam
- In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The… — 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.… — Jim Dietz
- The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing. — Mooji