Rowing Quotes

Rowing Quote of the day

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

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

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

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.

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

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

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

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

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.

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

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

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.

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

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

Go as hard as you can on the first piece and then pray that you get switched. Repeat.

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

Go out there and thrill me.

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?

You alone are responsible

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

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

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.

You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed without doubt, remorse, or blame. You alone are responsible.

A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

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.

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

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

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

That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.

The GLORY is in the TEAM, NOT the INDIVIDUAL.

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

Mileage makes champions

Go out there and row faster.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

Fitness - Focus - Form.

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

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

Gentlemen, let's go row!

Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

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.

The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile.

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.