Rowing Race Quotes

#1. The wind surged in a roar, then died down like it was pondering some heavy shit, then started back up like before.

Colum McCann

#2. It is thus evident that Rhetoric does not deal with any one definite class of subjects, but, like Dialectic, [is of general application]; also, that it is useful; and further, that its function is not so much to persuade, as to find out in each case the existing means of persuasion.

Aristotle.

#3. Physiologists, in fact, have calculated that rowing a two-thousand-meter race - the Olympic standard - takes the same physiological toll as playing two basketball games back-to-back. And it exacts that toll in about six minutes. A well-conditioned oarsman or oarswoman

Daniel James Brown

#4. The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.

Barry S. Strauss

#5. You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.

Maria Sharapova

#6. I would never make you drop something you love. I'd never drop what I love - for anybody. I'd make room for the other thing I love, though. I made room for you." ~Gage

Shanora Williams

#7. Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating
and there's something exquisite about that.

Hugh Laurie

#8. Ballet is the fairies baseball.

Oscar Levant

#9. 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

#10. We do not actually know other people; we only know our judgements.

Bryant McGill

#11. Today is all we have, my dears. Today is all we ever have.

Carrie Anne Noble

#12. Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern.

Brad Alan Lewis

#13. For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

Chelsea Clinton

#14. Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

Charles Bukowski

#15. Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

Winston Churchill

#16. It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.

Rudolfo Anaya

#17. You are always the light in my darkness. You're the reason I'm alive, you're the reason I'm here and you're the reason I breathe, every day.

Tara Sivec

#18. The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.

Pierre Trudeau

#19. I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

Dan Rather

#20. Race for the pschological advantage. Sit up tall, pull in high, stay within the margins of power, and they will inevitably look over at some point to see what kind of God is blasting your boat forward.

Christopher Allsopp

#21. Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

James Ellroy