Rowing Quotes

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.

And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.

There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.

Go out there and thrill me.

Go as hard as you can on the first piece and then pray that you get switched. Repeat.

You alone are responsible

The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing.

Don't blow your load on the first stroke, fellas.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed without doubt, remorse, or blame. You alone are responsible.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

The GLORY is in the TEAM, NOT the INDIVIDUAL.

Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.

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

Go out there and row faster.

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.

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

Mileage makes champions

To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row.

Gentlemen, let's go row!

Fitness - Focus - Form.

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.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

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.

Still loving the sport; still working on the focus.

Make your blade a water-seeking missle

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.

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

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

you're rowing by wordlight

What's Princeton doing today?

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.

Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.

Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.

Let the boat work - and not me!