Phillip Thomas quotes

“Fitness - Focus - Form.”
-- Phillip Thomas

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“Still loving the sport; still working on the focus.”
-- Phillip Thomas

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“Let the boat work - and not me!”
-- Phillip Thomas

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“The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!”
-- Phillip Thomas

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“Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.”
-- Phillip Thomas

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“When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower.”
-- Phillip Thomas

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“The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or rating without the cox announcing it.”
-- Phillip Thomas

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“Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.”

“Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.”

Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.181, Penguin

“Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain.”

Source : "True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny".

“While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.”

“I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.”

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”

Source : Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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

“If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.”

Source : "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 51, 1990.

“As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.”

“To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.”