Bending Quote by Walt Whitman

“right knee knuckling inward as his backswing began, trunk twisting to its limit as his left shoulder turned under his chin. ‘Every muscle”

— Kevin Cook

You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of…

— Jerome K. Jerome

The further back I look, the further forward I can see.

— Winston Churchill

He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height,…

— Colum McCann

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

— Brad Alan Lewis

The legs and arms can be a revelation of the back, the spine's extensions.

— Merce Cunningham

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

— Phillip Thomas

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and…

— Barry S. Strauss

To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...

— Theodore Roethke

His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Vangripped with splayed hands the brow of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

— Martin Luther King, Jr