She came to my house one day and said, 'I'm taking you rowing. You don't need to see to row. Let's just go and do this,'

I saw rowing in the Olympics and I said, 'I want to do that. That's my sport,' ... I had always been a swimmer, but when I saw rowing, I said, 'That's it.'

[B]y taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

I would rather have a back row seat in the house of the lord than a front row seat amoung the rich and powerful

Ninety-five percent of the people who row on our team didn't compete in high school. Rowing is much bigger on the East Coast.

We didn't want to drop three in a row before we have to face a tough Charlotte team. They always play us tough. It's going to be a great back-to-back series against them.