Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing - Barry S. Strauss
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 oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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
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…
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
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…
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
The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attentio…
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
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…
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 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…
Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter' - Barry S. Strauss
Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
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
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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