quotes about Rowing
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
-- AeschylusSource : Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”
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Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.
-- Allen Rosenberg -
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.
-- Andrew Marvell -
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
-- Barry S. Strauss -
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Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.
-- Barry S. Strauss -
Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain.
-- Daniel TopolskiSource : "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.
-- Drew Ginn -
Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to lean in a short period of time.
-- Eric Bana -
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
-- Fanny Kemble -
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
-- Jean-Paul SartreSource : Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media
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If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing.
-- Jim Dietz -
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
-- Kenichi OhmaeSource : "AntiPatterns in Project Management". Book by Hays W. McCormick, W. Scott Thomas, and William J. Brown, 2000.
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To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row.
-- Mike Teti -
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
-- Nancy Greene -
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
-- Owen Feltham -
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Still loving the sport; still working on the focus.
-- Phillip Thomas -
The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!
-- Phillip Thomas -
Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.
-- 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 -
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The GLORY is in the TEAM, NOT the INDIVIDUAL.
-- Sean Sullivan -
To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.
-- Steve Fairbairn -
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To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...
-- Theodore Roethke -
Race for the pschological advantage. Sit up tall, pull in high, stay within the margins of power, and they will inevitably look over at some point to see what kind of God is blasting your boat forward.
-- Christopher Allsopp -
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Make your blade a water-seeking missle
-- Christopher Allsopp -
Don't blow your load on the first stroke, fellas.
-- Christopher Allsopp