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“A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.”

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Barry S. Strauss

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“The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.”

“It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.”

Sports Brain Sea And Love Intelligent Greek Harmonious Precision Rowing Nautical Tactical Agonizing Quintessential Odysseus

Author:Barry S. Strauss

“I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.”

Thinking Ideas Young Girl Fun Wonder Princess Dressings Dressing Up Early Life

Author:Julie Andrews

“You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.”

Thinking Knows Ready Criticism

Author:Lena Dunham

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

Rowing Cerebral

Author:Barry S. Strauss

“In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.”

Bigs Existence Saws Students College Rose Dawn Editors Crew Rowing

Author:Barry S. Strauss

“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.”

Mean Moving Ships Demon Ceremony Rowing

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.”

Mind Sound Pay Attention Machines Busy Pay Attention Loud Too Busy Rowing Ergs

Author:Barry S. Strauss

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

Challenges Solitude Graphic Nourishment Rowing Microcosm

Author:Allen Rosenberg

“Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a number of generally self-congratulatory half-truths to explain how it happened that he ascended to that particular pinnacle. Often because original motivations don't seem to have much in common with the eventual success, the real and rationalized motivations are difficult to separate.”

Real Self Seems Motivation Difficult Levels Common Numbers Half Happened Particular Originals Pursuit High Level Rowing Pinnacle Half Truth Unorthodox

Author:Stefan Kieszling

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