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It wasn’t enough to master the technical details of it. You had to give yourself up spiritually; you had to surrender yourself absolutely to it. When you were done and walked away from the boat, you had to feel that you had left a piece of yourself behind in it forever, a bit of your heart. A lot of life is like that too.”
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Making the varsity crew hinged first of all paying for another year of school. And paying for school hinged on strapping on a harness and lowering himself over the edge of a cliff in the morning.
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But young men who had to win crew races, unlike gods, young men were fallible.
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Like so much in life, crew was partly about confidence, partly about knowing your heart
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“It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you do it, while pain has her wanton way with you.”
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