" It would be useless to try to segregate outstanding members of Washington's varsity shell, just as it would be impossible to try to pick a certain note in a beautifully composed song. All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were, in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades. "

― Daniel James Brown , The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics