Rowing Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Bending, Sides, Necks

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.80, Bantam Classics

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• 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

  Fall, Home, Ordinary Days

  "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

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• If anyone here is secretly dreaming of making the Olympics, I can tell you exactly how to do it, two words: Sustained Obsession. The obsession isn't so hard. But keeping it sustained is a tough nut to crack. A heart-felt enemy can go a long way to sustaining your obsession. Love your enemy.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Dream, Love You, Heart

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• As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Motivational, People, Advice

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

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Guy, Like You, Bigs

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• Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Heart, Night

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running for endurance, working on your technique. The second monster is your mental preparation-all our jabbering about humility, battling for your life, taking complete responsibility for the outcome. The last monster is your X Factor, your soul, your courage. Taken altogether, I call this three-headed monster the Process of Winning.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Running, Taken, Responsibility

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

  Madame de Stael

  Graves, Port

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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

  Boat, Breathe, Oar

  Theodore Roethke, “The Shape Of The Fire”

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• Good Day. We are privileged to live another day in this magnificent world. Today you will be tested.

  Mike Livingston

  Good Day, World, Today

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• Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things

  Mike Teti

  Race, Ergs, Pieces

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• One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this claim. In figure skating, for instance, the novice practices only simple moves. After years of training, the skater then proceeds to the jumps and spins that make up an elite skater's program. But the novice rower, from day one, strives to duplicate a motion that he'll still be doing on the day of the Olympic finals.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Moving, Unique

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• A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Memories, Simple

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• The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes to win races is the ability to reach inside and pull out something to keep you going - no, to go faster - when you have nothing left to give. There's a word for what that takes and the word is not magic, the word is guts.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Winning, Race, Giving

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• Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

  Robert Frost

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Oxygen, Vision, Ears

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• The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now. A thousand times I'd told them: the key to racing is to come off the water regretting nothing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Regret, Keys, Race

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• I think that's why I coach.. I used to get up early every morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast I was going to be. When I stopped rowing, there was a void in my daily routine. Now I go to bed at night and get up morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast you are going to be.

  Christopher Allsopp

  Morning, Night, Thinking

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• It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Sports, Intelligent, Sea

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• When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Hard Work, Winning, Night

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• The settle, followed by 10 for power will give you that grasp on their nuts that you need. Once you've got that, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze and squeeze and don't ever let up! You'll just be breaking 1500 meters down when you hear them yelp. Listen for the yelp, and then bring it into the dock.

  Christopher Allsopp

  Nuts, Giving, Needs

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• 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

  Inspirational, Confidence, Courage

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Freedom and equality, addresses”

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• Gentlemen, let's go row!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gentleman

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• Now, in my middle age,
  about nineteen in the head I'd say,
  I am rowing, I am rowing.

  Anne Sexton

  Age, Nineteen, Aging

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Letting Go, People, Needs

  "Be Flexible!" by Mike Robbins, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2010.

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