"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
	- Pablo Picasso
	"Every mile you row, every meter you erg, every stair you climb, every mile you run brings you one step closer to success at the Vails."
	- Georgia Tech Crew
	"We see rowing here as an opportunity to make history, to be part of a tradition, but also to create tradition, to be part of forward momentum. We want to create an attitude here that being the greatest Williams crew is not possible since once a crew reaches that level, another crew of determined athletes arrives to match and exceed their predecessor's success and accomplishments. Our success comes not from winning or losing, but by challenging ourselves to improve, by not being satisfied with a level of performance we have attained. By doing this we will give ourselves the opportunity to win races and do our best at year-end championship regattas."
	- Wiliams College, Captains' Comments
	"Each season we collect ourselves as a team and discuss several things: our goals for the season and for the program, and the qualities/characteristics we look for in ourselves and our teammates. Not all these goals are reached, but without goals we have nothing to aspire to."
	- Wiliams College, Captains' Comments
	"Medals are earned in the winter and collected in the spring!"
	- Mike Porterfield
	“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.”
	- Charles Mingus
	“I believe that each of us can develop the capacity to focus our attention on any chosen object or activity for a prolonged period of time.”
	- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
	"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."
	- Samuel Johnson
	"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
	- Steve Prefontaine
	"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
	- Hunter S. Thompson
	"Live, love, learn and leave a legacy."
	- Stephen R. Covey
	"The meaning of earthly existing lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul."
	- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
	"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
	- Oprah Winfrey
	"Overall there's no reason to not be eating a balanced diet and three to five meals a day. If you are missing meals, then you are doing something wrong. You can't workout hard without having nutrients in you. Being at the level we're at good nutrition could be the difference between success and failure."
	- Tom Ryan
	“Redgrave and Pinsent weren’t born Olympic Champions; it was good solid hard work and a hunger to do it over and over again that got them there.”
	- Jurgen Grobler
	"You can tell a lot by a team during winter program. The players can either go through the motions or they really make an effort to get BETTER. The latter will TURN HEADS."
	-Lou Holtz
	"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
	- Oliver Wendell Holmes
	"We don’t believe in rebuilding; we believe in retooling. Our success depends on how hard the kids are going to work. If they do work hard, I’m confident we’re going to be competitive next year."
	- Craig Hoffman    Head Coach, Malvern Prep
	"If we go beyond what we once thought was our perimeter, then all limits are open to question. We row toward an ever-expanding horizon."
	- Craig Lambert, Mind Over Water
	“It is not rocket science. The more you practice and race, the faster you go.”
	- Laci Tompa Head Coach, Steel City Rowing Club
	"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
	- Mark Twain
	"Hard work beats talent that doesn't work hard."
	- Jerry Powell
	"I emphasize quality over quantity. There are no sessions at 6:00 a.m. or anything like that. You show up at 4:30 p.m. and you'll be going up the hill at 6:15. I just ask for 65 minutes of maximum effort. I'll never ask a rower to do something that I haven't done 100 times. If it's not in my training log, it's not going to be a workout."
	- Marty Crotty
	"She and the other three members of the boat are smooth if not powerful, and when I watch them I am caught again in the beauty of the sport, a beauty that reflects hours and hours of commitment."
	- David Halberstam from the foreword of new edition of The Red Rose Crew, by Dan Boyne
	"It isn't sufficient just to want – you've got to ask yourself what are you going to do to get the things you want "
	- Franklin D. Roosevelt
	"I suppose it sounds archaic, but I cannot help thinking that the people with motor boats miss a great deal. If they would only use oars or paddle themselves, they would get infinitely more benefit than by having their work done for them by gasoline."
	- Teddy Roosevelt
	"One would sometimes think, from the speech of young men, that things had changed recently, and that indifference was now the virtue to be cultivated. I have never heard anyone profess indifference to a boat race. Why should you row a boat race? Why endure long months of pain in preparation of a fierce half-hour, or even six minutes, that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all its costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph, --or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give all the blood in his body to win the one, will he not spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?"
	- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Yale Commencement, 1886

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