Rowing Quotes
Collection of top 63 famous quotes about Rowing
Rowing Quotes & Sayings
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Make your blade a water-seeking missle
— Christopher Allsopp
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
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
— Owen Feltham
Go out there and row faster.
— Roger Moore
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
— Nancy Greene
The spotlight kept rowing back and forth across the face of the ridge. Methodically. Bright shuttle, dark loom.
— Cormac McCarthy
Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Mileage makes champions
— Steve Fairbairn
Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.
— Allen Rosenberg
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
Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.
— Brad Alan Lewis
Still loving the sport; still working on the focus.
— Phillip Thomas
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
An Olympic rowing career had left Porter Collins a bit inured to the pain of others, as he assumed they usually didn't know what pain was. No,
— Michael Lewis
Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up.
— Kristen Chandler
Don't blow your load on the first stroke, fellas.
— Christopher Allsopp
If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.
— Michael Jordan
You alone are responsible
— Mike Livingston
I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.
— Stefan Kieszling
If there is no wind, start rowing.
— Brian Carroll
The GLORY is in the TEAM, NOT the INDIVIDUAL.
— Sean Sullivan
Stopped rowing as the liquid run of that glad piping broke on him like a wave, caught him up, and possessed him utterly.
— Kenneth Grahame
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
Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.
— Brad Alan Lewis
To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.
— Steve Fairbairn
The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile ...
— Stefan Kieszling
A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.
— Daniel James Brown
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward ...
— Theodore Roethke
Let the boat work - and not me!
— Phillip Thomas
you're rowing by wordlight
— Paul Celan
I'd say it was a pleasure rowing with you, only it wasn't.
— Jennifer McKeithen
There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.
— Bryan Volpenhein
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 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
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
— Barry S. Strauss
Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts
— Roger Moore
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
All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
— Jose Mujica
Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to lean in a short period of time.
— Eric Bana
The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!
— Phillip Thomas
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.
— Phillip Thomas
Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
— Barry S. Strauss
Gentlemen, let's go row!
— Robert A. Heinlein
Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.
— J. Loren Norris
Go out there and thrill me.
— Roger Moore