Daniel Topolski Quotes

• ...pues este ocho estadounidense, con todo su material ocupando todos los asientos, no iba rápido. Remaron con todas sus fuerzas, pero nunca empezaron a cantar en el agua. Y nadie supo nunca por qué. La respuesta es un poco mística, porque la suma de una tripulación es mayor que sus partes. Aquellos ocho pesos pesados no tuvieron tiempo de desarrollar el vínculo, la confianza sagrada, que puede hacer volar a un ocho de regatas.

  Daniel Topolski

  Heart, Eight, Water

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• I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship, each one of them locked into his task. But it is one thing to practice, and quite another to race. And the trouble is, you never know who, on the day, will find it within his soul to give more than he has ever given before. It takes a kind of madness to compete like that, because of the will power and the ego, and his loyalty. And while some men have it, others have yet to find it. And a coach can only use his best judgement as to who those men will be.

  Daniel Topolski

  Loyalty, Men, Race

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• [He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see.

  Daniel Topolski

  War, Athlete, Fighting

  Daniel Topolski, Patrick Robinson (2013). “True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny”, p.32, Random House

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• Anyone who has not rowed in a really close Boat Race cannot comprehend the level of the pain.

  Daniel Topolski

  Pain, Row Boats, Levels

  "True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny".

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