1.
If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.
Michael Jordan
2.
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.
Andrew Marvell
3.
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
Barry S. Strauss
4.
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
Aeschylus
5.
Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.
Allen Rosenberg
8.
Go as hard as you can on the first piece and then pray that you get switched. Repeat.
Mike Teti
9.
The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing.
Mooji
12.
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.
Mike Livingston
13.
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
Owen Feltham
16.
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
Fanny Kemble
19.
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
20.
While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.
Drew Ginn
23.
To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row.
Mike Teti
26.
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
27.
I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
Madame de Stael
28.
Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.
Brad Alan Lewis
29.
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
30.
The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!
Phillip Thomas
31.
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward.
Theodore Roethke
33.
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
35.
Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.
Phillip Thomas
36.
Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.
Eric Bana
38.
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
39.
Still loving the sport; still working on the focus.
Phillip Thomas