Cambridge university Quote by H.L. Fourie

“The first race between the Oxford and Cambridge universities was held in 1829, using professional watermen to coxswain their boats.”

— H.L. Fourie

“The first U.S. collegiate boat clubs were organized at Yale in 1843 and at Harvard the following year.”

— H.L. Fourie

I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that…

— Xeno Muller

Once I was asked to do celebrity rowing, where they taught people who had been to Oxford or Cambridge to row against each other.…

— Nicola Walker

On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat Race. That…

— Tyler Winklevoss

I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in…

— Rosemary Mahoney

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts

— Roger Moore

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

— Nancy Greene

“The world's first university chair in engineering was founded in Glasgow in 1840.2'x”

— Thomas Sowell

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.

— Anne Sexton

Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads…

— Mike Teti

I remember, rowing took me forever and it took me so much time and coaching to get it right.

— Mat Fraser