Phillip Thomas quotes
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“Still loving the sport; still working on the focus.”
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“The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!”
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“Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.”
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“When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower.”
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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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Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.181, Penguin
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“Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain.”
Source : "True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny".
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“While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.”
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“I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.”
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“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
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“If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.”
Source : "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 51, 1990.
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“To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.”
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