Rowing Quotes

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines. View quote
William Saroyan
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new. View quote
Fanny Kemble
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. View quote
John Masefield
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Patrick Lencioni
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. View quote
Kenichi Ohmae
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. View quote
Nancy Greene
In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.' View quote
Bryan Volpenhein
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. View quote
Esther Hicks
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine. (Jonah Lomu)
Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important. View quote
Roz Savage
you're rowing by wordlight. View quote
Paul Celan
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
This is very simple in the world of chicks: some are hoochies, some are not, and some should never try to be. It's no different from the idea of sports. Now, I can go on my little rowing machine for four times a week, twenty-two minutes a time, and I can feel as if I flirt with the sporting world. Similar to the idea that a woman can put on something cuter for her man, for those moments, and flirt with garments that a hoochie woman might be pushing. But never for one moment should you get confused. My little rowing machine and I cannot consider ourselves athletes. Wearing the same garment does not a hoochie woman make. So if you are a true hoochie woman, may garments below the navel always be in your future. If you are not, then please don't throw away your cotton zippy jacket. View quote
Tori Amos
I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk. View quote
Barry McGuigan
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb. View quote
Alvin Toffler
Clearer and nearer still,' cried the Rat joyously. 'Now you must surely hear it! Ah - at last - I see you do!' Breathless and transfixed the Mole stopped rowing as the liquid run of that glad piping broke on him like a wave, caught him up, and possessed him utterly. He saw the tears on his comrade's cheeks, and bowed his head and understood. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
High above the lake a bomber flies. From the rowing boats Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance They appear like young starlings, their beaks Wide open for food. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee! View quote
Emily Dickinson
In an old Chronicle of Norway, we find it recorded of Olaf Tryggeson, a king of that country, that he was stronger and more nimble than any man in his dominions. He could climb up the rock Smalserhorn, and fix his shield upon the top of it; he could walk round the outside of a boat upon the oars, while the men were rowing; he could play with three darts, alternately throwing them in the air, and always kept two of them up, while he held the third in one of his hands; he was ambidexter, and could cast two darts at once; he excelled all the men of his time in shooting with the bow; and he had no equal in swimming. (Joseph Strutt)
I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps. View quote
Bryan Volpenhein
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. View quote
Clare Balding
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? View quote
Frederick Carl Frieseke
Not everyone wants this conventional little life you're rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it's time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flames and be consumed. I'm not afraid. View quote
Zadie Smith
📖 Rowing Proverbs