Move the boat forward. Don’t move the water backwards.

Rowing? Its a battle of wills; a test on endurance. You train and train and train until you just want to throw it all away but then you’re halfway through a race and you feel like shit except ... you’ve never felt so alive.

Crew is mostly a strange individualism. We gather into boats for only two months out of the year, and for the rest of the time it's all about individual striving. Oddly enough, there's no opportunity to express this striving unless there are eight other people around.