Rowing Quotes: 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

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave. — Madame De Stael

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. — Owen Feltham

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

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

While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow. — Drew Ginn

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

She seemed to see a flash of bright sunlight on dark green water, fragmented into brilliant shards by the splashing rise and fall of oars. — J.K. Rowling

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

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.
- Chinese proverb — Alvin Toffler

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man. — Steve Fairbairn

To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row. — Mike Teti

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

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

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new. — Fanny Kemble

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

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae

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

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

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

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

No,' answered Pen sullenly. 'We're not rowing. I was just . . . telling Triss something I thought she ought to do. Loudly. — Anonymous

The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing. — Mooji

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

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

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. — Jim Dietz

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