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Rowing Quotes by Stefan Kieszling
- I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.
- We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of…
- 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…
- 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…
- The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile ...
- Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my…
- [Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they wanted, and then…
- Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of infinite possibilities separating…
- Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will.
- Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory…
- For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet we had no good idea…
- As a competitor, winner or loser, one crosses the line into limbo. The adrenaline is gone, the anticipation is gone. The verdict is either comforting…
- That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were…
- Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is…
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