"Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET." --Brad Alan Lewis from Assault on Lake Casitas
"No, I don't think words can describe intensity...intensity is only seen and felt, it is a belief, a way of life. Do not try to learn intensity, do not try to put it in a box of understanding, because you can't. You have to live intensity. You have to breathe intensity. Only the deepest burning emotions can release it. Let that fire drive you to accomplish great things!" -- Mike Clayton
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." -- William Durant (founder of General Motors)
"We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back." –-Vince Lombardi
"I don't scratch my head unless it itches and I don't dance unless I hear some music. I will not be intimidated that's just the way it is." (remember the titans)
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
--Mohandas Gandhi
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."
"It is one of those strange ironies in life that the happiest of men/women are those who put themselves through the greatest hardship"
" Think the unthinkable, Believe the unbelieveable, Reach the unreachable, Only with hardwork."
"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."
--Jim Dietz
"Don't worry about tomorrow. For tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble on its own. After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
"Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream disappears." --Jim Dietz
"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have
deep inside them- a desire, a dream, and a vision. They have to have last minutes stamina, they have to be a little faster, and they have to have the skill and the will. But the will MUST be stronger than the skill." --Muhammad Ali
"'Cause I'm hanging on every word you say And even if you don't wanna speak tonight
That's alright, alright with me 'Cause I want nothing more Than to sit outside Heaven's door And listen to you breathing It's where I wanna be" --Breathing (Lifehouse)
"It may sound absurd, but don’t be naive, even Heroes have the right to bleed, I may be disturbed, but won’t you conceed, even Heroes have the right to dream...It’s not easy to be me" --Superman (Five For Fighting)
"Last night I had a dream about you, in this dream I'm dancing right besideyou, and it looks like everyone was having fun, the kinda feeling I waited so long...dont stop, come alittle closer, as we jam the rythem gets stronger, there's nothing wrong with just alittle little fun , we were dancing all night long..." --DAFT PUNK
"I hope you dont mind, I hope you dont mind, that I put down in words, how wonderful life is, now that you're in the world..." --Your Song (Elton John)
"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere...." --Dr. Seuss (Fox in Socks)
"It's amazing how much easier it is for a team to work together when no one has any idea where they're going"
"Ready to fight, Ready to kill, Ready to die but never will"
"I said forget about tomorrow, I dont care if it comes at all. And if we get a little crazy, blame it on the alcohol"
"All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope... all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect... who might be searching for us." --The Wonder Years
"I ran outta gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't comeback from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood! Locusts! It wasn't my fault, I swear to God!" --John Belushi
"If I am, another waste of everything you dreamed of, I will let you down, if I am only here to watch you suffer I will let you down... " --If I Am (Nine Days)
"I'm not fat, I just haven't grown into my body yet, you skinny bitch!" --Cartman
"The alarm can ring. The birds can peep.... Today's the day I'm going to sleep" --Dr. Seuss
"was I out of my head, was I out of my mind, how could I ever been so blind, I was waiting for an indictaion it was hard to find, dont matter what I say only what I do, never mean to do bad things to you, so quiet but I finally woke up, if you're sad than its time you spoke up too...." --Out of My Head (Fastball)
"What if there is no tomorrow ? There wasn't one today!" --Groundhog Day
"I can’t sit back And wonder why,
It took so long for this to die, And I hate it, when you fake it, You can’t hide it, you might As well embrace it, So believe me it’s not easy, It seems that Something’s telling me" --In Too Deep (Sum 41)
"And it may take some time to patch me up inside, but I can't take it so I run away and hide, and I may find in time that you were always right, you're always right....." --Grey Sky Morning (Vertical Horizon)
"The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn Is To Love And Be Loved In Return" --Moulin Rouge
"Love comes only to those who still hope though they been disappointed, to those who still believe though they been betrayed and to those who still love even though they been hurt before."
"Rowers stroke it while everyone else plays with their balls"
"Shampoo is better! I go on first and clean the hair! Conditioner is better! I leave the hair silky and smooth! Oh, really, fool? Really! Stop looking at me, swan!" --Adam Sandler (Billy Madison)
"I put my trust in you. Pushed as far as i can go. For all this Theres only one thing u should know...I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end It doesn't even matter. I had to fall And lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter" --In The End (?)(Linkin Park)
"Now this is the Law of the Jungle-- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runneth forward and back-- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. "
"On the eastcoast we ride, until the day we die" --Eastcoast Anthem (Good Charlotte)
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go." --Dr. Seuss (oh the places you will go)
"If I could fall into the sky, do you think time, would pass us by, cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you...tonight" --A Thousand Miles (Vanessa Carlton)
"This is how you remind me of what I really am..." --How You Remind Me (Nickelback)
"'Cause you're everywhere to me, and when I close my eyes it's you I see. You're everything I know that makes me believe I'm not alone..." --Everywhere (Michelle Branch)
"I wanna run away, never say goodbye. I wanna know the truth instead of wonderin' why. I wanna know the answers, no more lies. I wanna shut the door, and open up my mind" --Runaway (Linkin Park)
"I just wanna sink to the bottom with you, the ocean is big and blue....cause on the highway, up in the air, everyoene else is going somewhere, but i'm not going nowhere, gettng there soon, i might as well just sink down there with you..." --Sink to the Bottom (Fountains of Wayne)
"I have seen the others and I have discovered that this fight is not worth fighting, and i've seen their mothers, and i will no other will follow me where i'm going....so take a shower and shine your shoes, you got no time to lose you are young man you must be living...go now you are forgiven..." --The General (Dispatch)
"we were strangers starting out on a journey, never dreaming what we'd have to go through...now here we are and I'm suddenly standing at the beginning with you..." --Wonderful Journey (Donna Lewis and Richard Marx--ANASTASIA)
"the correlation between the term STROKE as in "take a stroke" on the erg, and the term STROKE as in have a stroke is uncanny." --Katie Collins
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses-- behind the lines, in the
gym and out there on the road -- long before I dance under those lights."
"Losers quit when they're tired. Champions quit when they hold the gold."
"Accept challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
"If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record."
"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results."
"The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle."
"The will to win is not worth a nickel unless you have the will to practice."
"Each day you don't practice is one more day you have to practice to get
better."
"Even if the voices aren't real, at least they cheer you on."
"WORKING TOGETHER: coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success." --Motivational Poster
"If there's something I can't live without its my team." -- Hiero
"Most men stop wen they begin to tire, good men go until they are going to collapse. But the very best know the mind tires before the body & push themselves further & further beyone all limits. Only when all these limits are shattered can the unattainable be reached." --Mark Mysynk
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit." --Aristotle
"Internally you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life-solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing & ultimately challenge." --Allen Rosenberg
"Life's a bitch, you erg, then you die. So don't die erging" --Karen Thieling
"As a coxswain, I concentrated most on knowing the people in my boat - why they were rowing, why they came down to the boathouse, what made them tick. You have to know whether someone's rowing
because they love their mother and hate their father. They're not sure they are proud of themselves; they to be proud. Determine some of that and you can tap the strongest parts of those individuals. Being able to inspire someone, unexpected and in a way new and fresh to them, is what made coxswaining special for me." --Devin Mahoney, Coxswain, Varsity Heavyweight Eight, Harvard '86
I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased the pace? You swung it forward mightily, you heaved it greatly back. "Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard the crack. "And while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue. "What thoughtwent flying through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you?" But Five made answer solemnly, "I heard them fire a gun, "No other mortal thing I heard until the Race was done." --R.C. Lehman
"Rowing is more than a fast boat on race day. It's a complementary experience to a young man's intellectual development.. Rowing, like success, is a journey, not a destination. I tell my
oarsmen to have fun, learn and, most of all, grow as individuals. The wins the losses will take care of themselves." --Rick Clother, Rowing Coach USNA
"The most significant message I can convey to the rowing athlete is: Just row the race. Think, about the process. Don't dwell on the
result until it's history." --Larry Gluckman, Varsity Heavyweight Coach, Princeton University
"Gentlemen... this is a school for combat. There are NO points for second place" --TOP GUN
"Not everybody wins, and certainly not everybody wins all the time. But once you get into your boat and push off, tie into your shoes and bootstretchers, then "lean on the oars," you have indeed won far more than those who have never tried."
"When we gather for the happiest week in all the year, it is the brotherhood
of rowing, the comradeship of the oar that we recall, when eight men who have trained until they have become a single drive, a single thrust of forward-flashing wrists, face suddenly the crisis towards which that selfless toil has led them, and know that every link in all that pulsing chain of flesh and blood rings true. For us, there are no centuries or duck's eggs, no goals or gallery kicks, no individual distinctions where the crew are all in all. The rattle of the riggers of the finish, the music of the tide beneath her body as she shot between the strokes, the grim yet heartening sound of splendid and unbroken strength when all eight blades crashed in together - these are the things that no one who has heard and felt them will ever forget. Some delirium. Some tremens. Some kaleidoscope." --Sir Theodore Cook
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself" --GI Jane
"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free." --The Shawshank Redemption
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all. their feathers are just to bright....and when they fly away the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice... but still, the place you live is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend" --Shawshank Redemption
"Peace isn't merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice." --Air Force One
": Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule!" --American Beauty
"I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me. But it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once... and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember... to relax, and not try to hold on to it. And then it flows through me like rain. And I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. Don't worry... you will someday." --American Beauty
"Making sex is like a Chinese dinner: It ain't over 'til you both get your cookies" --Outside Providence
"Struggle as hard as you can for whatever you believe in" (fortune from a fortune cookie)
"As soon as you do what's logical, then you kill everything good about it"
"Who are we? a mosaic. a combination of a thousand tiny colors, a thousand tiny lives, all blended into one, creating the big picture of who we are. you look at me, and you see a face, but look into my eyes. each tiny line, each one has had its own day: a joy, a tear, a victory, and a defeat. you look at me, and see what you will, but it is only when you understand that i am not one dimensional will you begin to understand my passions, my desires, and my heartaches. for they are not the products of what you easily see, but the products of a million moments which touched me so deeply, i was left speechless. don't underestimate the surface, because every color, even dark shades of blue, have a hint of the bright side. Who am i? one million moments at once. "
"So I truelly loved, and solidly lost. All I know...is that I know nothing"
"It's time to let you go, It's time to say good bye, There's no more excuses, No more tears to cry. There's been so many changes, I was so confused, All along you were the one, All the time I never knew. I want you to be happy, You're my best friend, But it's so hard to let you go now. All that could happen, I'll always have the memories...I'll be okay"
"Sometimes we need to be shattered. To fall apart into our simple and fundamental elements and reconstruct ourselves into the individuals we wish to become...without breakage, there can be no reconstruction..."
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage."