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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…
- 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…
- Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.
- The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much?…
- White Hot Concentration is the unappreciated fruit of hard ligting, especially squats. When your in the squat rack, with a serious amount of weight overhead,…
- Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.'…
- Coach's Rule: never admit a lack of experience or knowledge. Carry on at all times as though you've guided a hundred champion crews. Honesty is…
- Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of it meant to…
- Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer driver's know: a…
- The window of X Factor opportunity opens up in the closing seconds of a race-you might be sprinting at the time or just hanging one,…
- The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul. It's your courage. It's your…
- Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.
- The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full length. Then the…
- As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for…
- Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions…
- Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like lean,…
- Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running…
- I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the…
- Unlike boxers-or any professional athlete for that matter-rowers have little motivation to do it longer than necessary. With a modest amount of self-realization, you'll know…
- After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'.
- If anyone here is secretly dreaming of making the Olympics, I can tell you exactly how to do it, two words: Sustained Obsession. The obsession…
- Like any good drug, anger can mask all reality. But anger is not an easy emotion to call up on demand, which is why an…
- The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now. A thousand times…
- Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to…
- Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.
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- 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