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| Entry Number. 1 | | Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Look after your cox
And say ''I do''! | | 0 votes |
| 2 | | Row like your life depends on it! | | 0 votes |
| 3 | | When the going gets tough, the tough get rowing! | | 1 votes |
| 4 | | Just keep going | | 0 votes |
| 5 | | Whilst rowing against Jesus College Boat Club I don't believe in Jesus! | | 8 votes |
| 6 | | "Just keep rowing, keep rowing" ..whilst mid-race, very tired and hurting a lot.
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| 7 | | "Put the nail in the coffin" ..going for a 'bump' in Cambridge bumps | | 0 votes |
| 8 | | "Just keep rowing!" - during a long head race
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| 9 |  | As we were overtaking a four in a head race I said "thats not maggie, its FaT (our main opposition) now stand up on them". we beat FaT by one second.
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| 10 | | Stop flapping about like a spent c*ck in the wind. | | 13 votes |
| 11 | | Probably at National Schools last year (2007), in the final of the Childe-Beale cup for 1st VIII\'s. we had been in the top 3 for 1750m, until we were overtaken. Not quite sure what to do, i told the crew \"Oh no guys, we\'re out of the medals\". Needless to say, this did not seem to motivate the crew and we came 4th by less than 1/2 a second | | 1 votes |
| 12 | | Henley Royal Regatta in 2007, on the Wednesday. KSC Vs. RGS Worcester. At the barrier, we had a 1/2 length lead. About halfway between the barrier and Fawley, we had a length and some clear water, and i called "Come on guys, we're killing these bastards". the boat speed rose (I could tell on our speedcoach), and about 150m later, the opposition Stroke crabbed and the race was effectively over job | | 1 votes |
| 13 | | Ok boys, remember to go through the back end. Thats the way I did it, and thats the way you\'ll do it. | | 0 votes |
| 14 | | (at the Schools head of the river) GUYS! I can see Fulham! We\'re going Home! | | 0 votes |
| 15 | | Schools head, saying i can see fulham football stadium about a mile away | | 0 votes |
| 16 | | At HRR 2007 - "We're killing those northern b**tards" | | 0 votes |
| 17 | | Whilst moving onto the side of the bank ready to get out; "if you think you should be rowing, row! | | 0 votes |
| 18 | | 'Well I tried to enter you into the guys division, but it was full. So I entered you into the girls division' - To our male first novice boat.
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| 19 | | 'They may not look like girls but they sure as hell row like them.' - cox refering to an all girls first boat, during a mixed head race job | | 6 votes |
| 20 | | In a race there was a helicopter coming into land, as it crossed the river the downdraft caused a few waves and some of the river came into the boat. It was also vwery loud. The call from the cox was "ignore the Helicopter" | | 0 votes |
| 21 | | Overheard during a recent head race...OK I want you to think about that little voice that\'s telling you that you\'re really tired and that you can't go on any further. Now, don't listen to that voice...don't listen to it, d-o-o-o-n't listen to it
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| 22 | | Start of Henley Qualifiers 'This race is for Tics, you shouldn't be here. Show them you shouldn't be here' | | 0 votes |
| 23 | | Approaching Hammersmith in the HORR, stroke talks to cox 'come on, say something - we're dying" Cox speaks down the mic 'COME ON, WE'RE DYING!' | | 1 votes |
| 24 | | Well done guys. I can see the finish line now. It's miles away. | | 0 votes |
| 25 | | Empty the tanks. You've got no more races today. Earn that beer. | | 0 votes |
| 26 | | get me there c**k (meaning cox)
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| 27 | | "All puff together" classic from a cox at PBDRC in the 1970s | | 0 votes |
| 28 | | " All puff together" cracked us up so much we did not care if we won. | | 0 votes |
| 29 | | "Kamikaze!!!" (great call for the final sprint) "Move over Germans" (to the slower international crew in front during the IVs head) | | 0 votes |
| 30 | | "I took up coxing because I liked being an authority figure and the police force had a height restriction. I'm short and I'm bitter, and you'd better pull very hard". (we got well scared) | | 0 votes |
| 31 | | "For the next 6 minutes you're going to hate me every time I ask you to pull harder than you ever have before. If you decide not to do that, you're going to hate yourself for a lot longer".
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| 32 | | When getting destroyed in a side-be-side 8s race "Don't worry about the other boat now boys, just concentrate on your techinique." | | 0 votes |
| 33 | | When winning "Now it's time to pull your thumb out your a**e and dick on them" | | 0 votes |
| 34 | | "Aren't those ducks funny?" about 2k into the North of England Head | | 0 votes |
| 35 | | While coxing a boat of medics: "Guys, you're rowing like an epileptic spider that's forgotten to take its medication. In 2, in 1, Clonazepam"
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| 36 | | my favourite call ever: "eeeasssy there" | | 0 votes |
| 37 | | "I had to easy it because we were about to mount them" | | 0 votes |
| 38 | | "Draw, Draw, Draw, wind one, wind two, POWER THERE, POWER THERE, WE ARE ALL OVER THEM LIKE AUGUSTUS GLOOP ON A CHOCOLATE BAR!!! | | 1 votes |
| 39 | | The Riggers, USE THEM. (Great race motivational call) | | 0 votes |
| 40 | | On my signal unleash hell!
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| 41 | | Commenting on landmarks at the side of the river: "I can see a bush on the bank - I want that bush, give me that bush" | | 1 votes |
| 42 | | 5, the better part of you slid down your mother's leg. Sorry 5, I meant 6. | | 0 votes |
| 43 | | Slip it in without me feeling it.
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| 44 | | How long can you hold your hand in the fire?
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| 45 | | Row Quite Hard
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| 46 | | Power 10 for the bump, Power 10 for Leo (our boat), Power 10 for Blades
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| 47 | | 'Right, lets take that bridge and s*** it out the back of us! | | 0 votes |
| 48 | | Sat on the start line at HRR, the umpire stands up and does his run through, then:
Umpire: Attention
Cox (very audibly): S**t...
Umpire: Go!
What a way to inspire confidence.
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| 49 | | "Come on, guys, keep going. You're just like Lucozade tablets - FULL OF ENERGY!!" | | 0 votes |
| 50 | | ''Push harder and make me wet'' | | 0 votes |
| 51 | | ''I've got their 2 man, I've got their bow man, I need their cox, give me their cox'' | | 0 votes |
| 52 | | Easy All - as boat about to collide with an overhanging branch of a tree | | 0 votes |
| 53 | | I have the best- crew you all look great- we are going to win. | | 0 votes |
| 54 | | The worst thing i\'ve ever heard said was by another cox on a 5 k head course where you turned the corner at half way and had 2.5 k left. The finish line being the bridge I heard him say. "Right lads I can see the bridge lets go for home" killer | | 0 votes |
| 55 | | When breaking an overlap the call I bring out (special occasions only) "Don't just sit on them S**t on them" | | 0 votes |
| 56 | | "I'm really hungover guys, I can't really be bothered with this. Stephen wants you to do a piece up to the head. Come forward, attention, Go. Right, Push for 200." Silence reined for the next 5 mins. | | 0 votes |
| 57 | | "Stroke it like a lady, don't bang it like a wh**e." | | 16 votes |
| 58 | | Once in Junior Regatta Time (about 1994) in Linz/Austria our cox said about ten strokes from the start (about 150m rowed) at a 2000m course:
Come on guys i can see the finishing tower!! | | 1 votes |
| 59 | | Best was in 1998 in finals of the U23 eight at german championships:
Cox called at 500m to go one power10 after another and called us to be about three quaters of a length down on fourth place and we really come back and earned bronze. | | 0 votes |
| 60 | | Oh no, the rudder wire has just snapped! She said this shortly after stroke caught a crab because of his super high stroke rate and shortly before we hit the bank at Peterborough Summer Regatta on their rowing lake. | | 0 votes |
| 61 | | Reading Regatta - "okay guys, I see the bridge, push for home, give it all you've got" One minute later "S**t, wrong bridge" | | 0 votes |
| 62 | | As a aging novice in a 4+ in our first race, Harry, our 14 year old male cox, shouted at us "now use those tree trunk thighs girls!'
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| 63 | | Catching a crew slowly on a bend our cox said very quietly 'I have steered a blinder and we have them, now you bury them' - we did.
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| 64 | | ok guys we have no steering and theres a bank in front of us | | 0 votes |
| 65 | | wooo we won get in!!1 last race of the season and we won | | 0 votes |
| 66 | | You could have won if you'd tried harder! - after loosing by a canvas | | 0 votes |
| 67 | | just one more 500 - no not really- we're finished for the day
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| 68 | | Well done guys! You look knackered but we are ALLLLLMOST halfway. | | 395 votes |
| 69 | | "3 there is S**t on the end of your blade" Oarsman looks at blade in water!
"No! Wrong end!" | | 0 votes |
| 70 | | 2k into a 5k race, "come on lads its not that hard!" we weren't too happy | | 0 votes |
| 71 | | We're sinking! Abandon ship! | | 0 votes |
| 72 | | You're rowing like losers - and I don't row with losers! | | 0 votes |
| 73 | | At Dorney Lake -"PUSH LADS, I can see the finish!! " well no duh. | | 0 votes |
| 74 | | Oh Bollocks. (Just as a barge ran over the boat) | | 0 votes |
| 75 | | A junior cox at Reading regatta a few years ago was heard to repeat, in a rather high pitched voice, the word "pull" every single stroke for an entire race without any other calls, I guess it probably lost its effect as the crews lost by a number of lengths. | | 0 votes |
| 76 | | It's not what you say but how you say it! when I was coxing a novice 8s race at Cambridge Regatta a couple of years ago apparently I was so loud the other crew could not hear their own cox's calls, we beat that crew easily, I was told later they were left dazed and confused by the experience. | | 0 votes |
| 77 | | "Rowing's not Rocket Science" | | 0 votes |
| 78 | | YOU ARE TRYING BUT NOT WINNING!
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| 79 | | AS WE AMAZINGLY OVERTOOK 8 CREWS AT RUTHERFORD HEAD - 'YOUR OPPOSITION ARE WATCHING YOU PASS THEM AND ARE LEARNING TO ROW BY WATCHING YOU AS YOU PASS THEM!' | | 0 votes |
| 80 | | oh god, can't you guys row together.... | | 0 votes |
| 81 | | come on! show me you've got balls! | | 0 votes |
| 82 | | I'm sure we can get through the inside arch. (Two seconds before running aground under Hammersmith Bridge at low tide and severely damaging an eight) | | 0 votes |
| 83 | | 'Thames are going to be disqualified'. (At Richmond Regatta when they cut across the course and hit our eight within 100 yards of the start. Owing to a problem caused by another Thames eight, which affected the timetable, I was obliged to sub as a cox in this race.) | | 0 votes |
| 84 | | Back down bow side! (When heading for the bank at firm pressure after cox misjudged treacherous bend during Wallingford race) | | 0 votes |
| 85 | | Wind down. | | 0 votes |
| 86 | | Names changed! During a long piece during which the cox in front keep moving side to side to prevent our crew passing. Our cox gets frustrated, puts the cox box at full volume: "SARAH! OH SARAH! I'M COMING INSIDE YOU!" | | 0 votes |
| 87 | | Passing the mile post in the HORR : "Imagine the guy sitting in your seat in the second boat. He thinks he should be here instead of you. Now imagine his head underneath the foot stretcher. Next stroke - crush his head. Go!" | | 0 votes |
| 88 | | 'We're going down!!!'
said by our cox just before the beginning of the Veterans' Head 2004. We sank before the start and managed to paddle to the side where we were stranded on a beach that was quickly submerged by the incoming tide. We were unable to empty out the boat, as the lockers had filled after so long underwater and had to be rescued. It was a cold hour in frigid Thames waters. | | 0 votes |
| 89 | | 'Where did that start come from?' Our cox expressing total surprise at the way the boat shot off the start at the Quintin Head 2007. I might add that the training outings had been so poor, that she was mightily surprised that the boat could run at all. | | 0 votes |
| 90 | | "Kill them!... stamp on their heads!" | | 0 votes |
| 91 | | Don't panic they're only 3 lenghths in front! | | 0 votes |
| 92 | | Let the boat run - for the work you have done. | | 0 votes |
| 93 | | At the 4s head, a cox not used to the Tideway is asked "Are we using the stream" by the more experienced stroke. Her response: "OK, let's have a stream ten. Stream for one, stream for two..." | | 76 votes |
| 94 | | I can see the whites of their eyes! | | 3 votes |
| 95 | | Don't hang around, just stick it in! (Cox about blade entry at the catch) | | 0 votes |
| 96 | | Crew order was....Jan, Matt, john, Hugo, Chino, Andy, Gerald, Mark.. The call was....do it for Jan, do it for Matt, do it for John, do it for Hugo, do it for erm...Dave!!!!! | | 0 votes |
| 97 | | Give me the best ten strokes you have.....in two, in one, now....that wasn't the best ten you have.....do it again....in, two, one, Go | | 0 votes |
| 98 | | Every inch matters guys, every centimeter.... | | 0 votes |
| 99 | | I don't know where the finish is, but we're getting closer! | | 0 votes |
| 100 | | Crew #23, move over... we are overtaking... YOU ARE SLOW! | | 0 votes |
