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The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes to win races is the ability to reach inside and pull out something to keep you going - no, to go faster - when you have nothing left to give. There's a word for what that takes and the word is not magic, the word is guts.

Barry S. Strauss

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Barry S. Strauss
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: November 27
Classical Scholar
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New York City
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