"As a competitor, winner or loser, one crosses……" — Stefan Kieszling
"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 or devestating but it neithers returns the exhilaration of the race nor helps directly to win the next. Maybe all that matters is that there is a next."
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14 Quotes by Stefan Kieszling
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I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.
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We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and…
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Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one…
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Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to…
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The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile…
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Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me…
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[Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to…
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Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the…
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Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will.
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Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing…
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For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet…
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That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina…
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