I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.

As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

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

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

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'

MCP, maximum controled pressure. No tomorrow, no waiting, nothing beyond the moment. We seek the perfect balance-total abandon on the drive, total control on the recovery.

You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.

After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'.

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

When you succeed (with legislation), that feeling is exhilaration. And it takes leadership from a president, which means you meet with members of Congress 24/7 and you talk and you listen.

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.