Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

Always stay in with the outs.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.