Rowing Quotes - Page 7

• Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Pain, Thinking, Weight Lifting

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• The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Pain, Demand, Packaging

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• The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Sports, Imagination, Attention

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• I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Army, Night, Light

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• In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

  Bryan Volpenhein

  Perfect, Goal, Focus

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• Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

  Mike Teti

  Country, Wall, School

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• Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

  Homer

  Fighting, Swings, Skills

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• Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Water, Grandfather

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1678) pt. 1.

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• I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."

  Melanie Lynskey

  Home, Two, World

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• If you ask why start-ups outperform established enterprises when it comes to catching the next wave, the answer is that they are not conflicted. Everyone is rowing in the same direction. That is never the case in a company that has a portfolio of businesses at different stages in their maturity. So the key to winning there has to be to "zone out" the conflicts - sort of like sending quarrelling children each to their own room.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Children, Winning, Maturity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Rain, Good Day, Eye

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• "Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't like sudden loud noises. They scare me. And then all these people came running down the hill and jumped in the water in their finery and a bride and groom was with them, and that's where it all started.

  Judy Blume

  Summer, Running, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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

  Race, Looks, Kind

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• Osho used me and Shunyo (my girlfriend at the time) as an example of how he envisioned men and women should relate. He shared a story he had often told in discourse of a man and woman who lived at opposite ends of a lake. They were deeply in love but only met by chance when sometimes out rowing on the water. He said it was beautiful how Shunyo and I met like this couple. When we had the feeling to be together, we would meet and enjoy. And when we were apart, we were also happy and content in our aloneness.

  Swami Anand Milarepa

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Couple

  Source: www.sannyas.wiki

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• you're rowing by wordlight

  Paul Celan

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• What's Princeton doing today?

  Christopher Allsopp

  Today, Princeton

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• Make your blade a water-seeking missle

  Christopher Allsopp

  Water, Blades, Seeking

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• I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music.

  Tod Machover

  Morning, Barns, Firsts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

  Clare Balding

  Swimming, Cycling, Games

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• I know how to dance with the wind, I can use its power by sailing this way, then that way, and again this way, till finally I get to you. With rowing, you're working primarily with your arms and shoulders. But with sailing, you're making bigger use of the wind and the waves.

  Jeff Bridges

  Wind, Sailing, Use

  "Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher ruminate on life". Interview with Bernie Glassman, www.today.com. January 8, 2013.

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• In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Father, Lakes

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat racing is speed not margin. Boat X beats boat Y by two lengths over 1000 meters in a time of 2:54. After exchanging "Dave" from X to Y for "Scott," Boat X beats boat Y by one length in a time of 2:51. From the rower's perspective, the result is that Dave beats Scott by a length. But in Mike's eyes, Scott beats Dave because on the second piece, X was three seconds faster-even though it only beat Y by a length.

  Chris Ahrens

  Eye, Two, Perspective

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• It's great to see the World Rowing Championships returning to U.S. soil for the first time in 25 years. I am even more excited that it will be taking place in my home state of Florida. Regardless of where my rowing career takes me, I am sure to be in attendance in Sarasota in 2017.

  Stephen Young

  Home, Careers, Florida

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• You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

  Mary Oliver

  Soul, Doubt, Boat

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.

  David Halberstam

  Sports, Football, Pain

  David Halberstam (2012). “The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal”, p.73, Open Road Media

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