Top 118 Rowing Quotes & Sayings

Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.

The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!

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

I am very proud of rowing the Atlantic Ocean.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.

I have come to the conclusion that rowing alone won't bring top of the line erg scores. The two are really completely different. The motion is, of course, fairly similar to rowing. However moving your own body back and foth on a machine that doesn't move is a challenge that cannot be mastered unless it is trained. Therefore, I believe that people who only row will find it harder to pull scores on the erg that are in the highest percentile.

I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.

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.

I love rowing machines and I like assault bikes because they just whoop up on you.

Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every 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.

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.

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

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts

Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.

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.

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

you're rowing by wordlight

My ideal date would involve a park or rowing in those little boats on a lake.

I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music.

It's great to see the World Rowing Championships returning to U.S. soil for the first time in 25 years. I am even more excited that it will be taking place in my home state of Florida. Regardless of where my rowing career takes me, I am sure to be in attendance in Sarasota in 2017.

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.

I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row.

As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.

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

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

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

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.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

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

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

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

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

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?

A combination of cardio exercises on the rowing machine, treadmill, elliptical, or The Gauntlet will help blast fat in the lower half of the body.

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

I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."

I don't think it hurts to have rowing featured in a movie that's in the race for the best pictures. If it means someone might try the sport... then I'm really excited and happy about that.

I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, which I'm thoroughly looking forward to it. It's not got electricity or anything.

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.

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.

On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat Race. That was part of the impetus for us to start rowing.

There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.

If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

I find rowing very boring, I've got to be honest.

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.

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

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.

If you do the treadmill or elliptical all the time, try adding the rowing machine or stair climber, maybe get a new bicycle. You want to keep it fresh.

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's different. So gently is really important. Don't power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.

I was rowing the boat alone against a tide, running against an incumbent in 2013.

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

The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.