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Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. -- Jim Dietz
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. -- Nancy Greene
Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts -- Roger Moore
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new. -- Fanny Kemble
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. -- Kenichi Ohmae
Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain. -- Brad Alan Lewis
Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important. -- Roz Savage
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
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. -- John Masefield
Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural force is safe and easy. -- Ralph Waldo Trine
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Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining. -- Barry S. Strauss
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? -- Frederick Carl Frieseke
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure? -- Rosemary Mahoney
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine. -- Jonah Lomu
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You alone are responsible -- Mike Livingston
The GLORY is in the TEAM, NOT the INDIVIDUAL. -- Sean Sullivan
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. -- Aeschylus
The oars game me power but also taught me humility. -- Barry S. Strauss
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing -- Barry S. Strauss
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time. -- Andrew Marvell
Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain. -- Daniel Topolski
Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge. -- Allen Rosenberg
You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers... -- Walt Whitman
When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one. -- Mark Van Doren
In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race. -- Jim Dietz
There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics. -- Bryan Volpenhein
All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way. -- Jose Mujica
Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars. -- Esther Hicks
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
I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk. -- Barry McGuigan
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
I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps. -- Bryan Volpenhein
When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles, rowing across lochs, or escaping over moors of purple heather. Even those Scots were hard to find. For at school, we recited poetry according to the set texts the teachers taught us. -- Theresa Breslin
I absolutely love 'Four In A Bed.' Before I started filming, and I was unemployed, it was the focus of my day. Four B&B owners go to each other's B&Bs, have a meal and stay over, and then pay what they think the room was worth. At the end of the week, they sit down together and open each other's envelopes, and they all start rowing. -- Kimberley Nixon
you're rowing by wordlight -- Paul Celan
Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat! -- Phillip Thomas
The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing. -- Mooji
I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave. -- Madame de Stael
Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up. -- Kristen Chandler
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.â? - Chinese proverb -- Alvin Toffler
Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.... -- Anne Sexton
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. -- Owen Feltham
Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time. -- Eric Bana
I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain. -- Stefan Kieszling
The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile ... -- Stefan Kieszling
Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines. -- William Saroyan
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way. -- Harry S. Truman
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
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
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
Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life. -- Stefan Kieszling
If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie. -- Barry S. Strauss
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing. -- Barry S. Strauss
When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing? -- Vilhelm Moberg
I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess. -- Dhani Harrison
If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time. -- Patrick Lencioni
Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that. -- Hugh Laurie
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
That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home. -- Deborah Harkness
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
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

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