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

- Barry S. Strauss

The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

- Barry S. Strauss

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 agai…

- 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-bon…

- Barry S. Strauss

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

- Barry S. Strauss

The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes to win races is the ability to reach ins…

- Barry S. Strauss

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attentio…

- Barry S. Strauss

So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and there the dark brine gu…

- Barry S. Strauss

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.

- Barry S. Strauss