Inspirational Quote by Daniel Topolski

Anyone who has not rowed in a really close Boat Race cannot comprehend the level of the pain.

— Daniel Topolski

The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

— Phillip Thomas

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t…

— Charles Bukowski

Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

— Allen Rosenberg

When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts…

— Barry S. Strauss

Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in…

— David Halberstam

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

— Anais Nin

I find rowing very boring, I've got to be honest.

— Tony Pulis

Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it…

— Barry S. Strauss

What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the other fellows…

— Daniel James Brown

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

— Harry S. Truman

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

— Saint Basil