The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

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

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

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.

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

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