Good quotes/sayings
MStrider1
greatly appreciate if you would either post them or send them to me (or
both, whatever). Also, or maybe instead, if anyone knows how I could
obtain a previously compiled list that too would be appreciated.
Thanx
Michael English mstr...@aol.com
Portland, Oregon or
michael...@pgn.com
Owen Dulmage
> Does anyone have any good rowing related quotes or sayings? I would
> greatly appreciate if you would either post them or send them to me (or
> both, whatever). Also, or maybe instead, if anyone knows how I could
> obtain a previously compiled list that too would be appreciated.
Yeah! Here too, please!
PMckeon531
knowledgable coach: "Coach, what strategy are we going to use?"
He replied, "We're going to jump 'em off the start, move away in the
middle, and turn it on at the end. Works every time."
PMckeon531
After having an undefeated season, my lightweight 8 had a horrible race in
the local championship: last off the start, a crab, scrambling the whole
way down the course, but finally pulling it off in the last 500m. Our
coach, who had followed us down the course in a launch, motored up to us
as we were recovering next to our arch rivals (who had lost to us all
season) and informed us, through his electronic megaphone: "Boy, you guys
really pulled that one out of your rectum".
Same crew, same coach. We were always "on the line" when making weight,
so coach always weighed us the night before a race. After weighing Steve
(nickname: Harpo), who had miracously lost 3 lbs in 2 days, he exclaimed:
"God Harpo, what did you do; cut off your left nut?"
Miles B. Cooper
A captain was overheard responding to the complaints of one of
our oarsmen, "You're throwing up? Is there blood in it? Then what's the
problem?"
Miles B. Cooper
Joe Dane
We have a poster in our boathouse at UC Irvine with a quote from one of
the most venerable of all rowing figures, George Pocock. It looks at
first like a poem, and I used to look at it and think that it was fairly
nice, but a bit too convoluted for good poetry (pedant that I am.) However,
I found that it was not written as a poem, but was an extemporaneous
answer to a question asked by an interviewer.
Taken in this context, I think it's about the most beautiful thing ever
said about rowing.
"It's a great art, is rowing.
It's the finest art there is.
It's a symphony of motion
And when you're rowing well
Why, it's nearing perfection.
And when you reach perfection
You're touching the divine.
It touches the you of yous,
Which is your soul"
George Pocock
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Sullys Maze
da...@electron.ps.uci.edu (Joe Dane) writes:
>I found that it was not written as a poem, but was an extemporaneous
>answer to a question asked by an interviewer.
>
>Taken in this context, I think it's about the most beautiful thing ever
>said about rowing.
>
>"It's a great art, is rowing.
>It's the finest art there is.
>It's a symphony of motion
>And when you're rowing well
>Why, it's nearing perfection.
>And when you reach perfection
>You're touching the divine.
>It touches the you of yous,
>Which is your soul"
>
> George Pocock
This came from a 16 mm film made in the early to mid seventies
called Symphony in Motion. Quite a cast of well known US Rowing
characters, including the Pococks, Harry Parker, Ted Nash and many
many others. The sculler in the film was Bill Titus who is now
running Pocock Racing Shells. Nice guitar music.
Joe, UCI should have that film still, it was there when I left so
long ago. We used it for the initial Frosh recruiting meeting each
year.
Mike
AHE...@utcvm.utc.edu
mstr...@aol.com (MStrider1) writes:
>Does anyone have any good rowing related quotes or sayings? I would
>greatly appreciate if you would either post them or send them to me (or
>both, whatever). Also, or maybe instead, if anyone knows how I could
>obtain a previously compiled list that too would be appreciated.
"Don't penalize the rest of your crew because you are stupid!"
-Robert Espeseth
"Don't sit around and pick your nose!"
-Robert Espeseth
Geoffrey Hoffman
pmcke...@aol.com writes:
>He replied, "We're going to jump 'em off the start, move away in the
>middle, and turn it on at the end. Works every time."
another thing i've heard:
"go out fast, die last"
a little bit like the famous spracklen race plan that worked for canada
in 92 and the US in 94 (as well as other races)
Geoff Hoffman
Exeter '93
Cornell '97
boatwrecker
: When nervously approaching one of my first races, I asked of our
: knowledgable coach: "Coach, what strategy are we going to use?"
: He replied, "We're going to jump 'em off the start, move away in the
: middle, and turn it on at the end. Works every time."
Jeez, that sounds like one of the race plans I picked up from an old
coach of mine. Whenever any of my crew ask me what the race plan is
)after I have just described it at length to them), I reply....
"Go hard, stay ahead, and don't get tired"
--
Dave 'boatwrecker' Rushka : "When in doubt,
University of British Columbia : Pull it out!"
Varsity Men's Coxswain :
and Mouth Mechanic (II) : (teeth, that is)