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

  Drew Ginn

  Important, Gone, Efficiency

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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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• Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Struggle, Leader

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Teamwork, Individuality

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

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Not Afraid, Standing Still, Stills

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

  Michael Jordan

  Thinking, Future Dreams, Unknown Motivational

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

  Christie Watson

  Boat

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

  Phillip Thomas

  Eight, Swings, Together

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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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• 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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• The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Humility, Games, Taught

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

  Sean Sullivan

  Team, Glory, Individual

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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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