Rowing Quotes

• Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Rocks, Guy, Sailing

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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  The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Not Afraid, Standing Still, Stills

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• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Time

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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• 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

  Hard Work, Thinking, Race

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• Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack. And that's why an oarsman, when he goes out in life, he can fight it, he can handle life. That's what he gets from rowing.

  Daniel James Brown

  Fighting, Civilization, Balance

  Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics”, p.357, Penguin

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

  Andrew Marvell

  Fall, Way, Guides

  Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.58, Pearson Education

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• Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

  "AntiPatterns in Project Management". Book by Hays W. McCormick, W. Scott Thomas, and William J. Brown, 2000.

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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

  Sports, Dream, Long

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• No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Teamwork, Individuality

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

  Allen Rosenberg

  Challenges, Solitude, Graphic

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• "Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")

  Roz Savage

  Mean, Comfort, Savages

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

  Barry S. Strauss

  Cerebral

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• We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.

  Christie Watson

  Boat

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• The GLORY is in the TEAM, NOT the INDIVIDUAL.

  Sean Sullivan

  Team, Glory, Individual

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• When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower.

  Phillip Thomas

  Eight, Swings, Together

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• There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Advantage

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

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• Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

  Nancy Greene

  People, Community, Places To Go

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• Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Pain, Winning, Men

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• There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Witty, Wind, Sailing

  TheWind in theWillows ch. 1 (1908)

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• Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

  Alvin Toffler

  Education, Learning, Chinese

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• 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

  Beautiful, Wind, Water

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• The window of X Factor opportunity opens up in the closing seconds of a race-you might be sprinting at the time or just hanging one, trying to get across the finish line. With a supreme act of will, you can prolong your effort, essentially fighting off the inevitable lactic acid shutdown. You'll have little time for contemplating the options: either wholeheartedly go for it, or back off. You must train your X Factor to unequivocally respond the way you want-go for it. Once the window is closed, it's closed forever.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Fighting, Opportunity, Race

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

  Christopher Allsopp

  Blow, Firsts, Strokes

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• The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion sculler. It all comes under the heading of boatmanship. Some races are won on nothing more than superior boatmanship.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Motivational, Race, Order

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