- Published: 1 August 2005
- ISBN: 9780091903381
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $35.00
A Lifetime In A Race
- Published: 1 August 2005
- ISBN: 9780091903381
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $35.00
A very honest book - not in a sensational way - but more revealing in the realities of training, competing and racing ... Extremely enjoyable
Daily Telegraph
A good book, well-written, informative, engaging, revealing ... The insights Pinsent brings to his sport are worth the price alone
Sunday Times
Pinsent is a person of many talents. One of them is writing an autobiography
The Times
Pinsent tells his own story in A Lifetime in a Race, and tells it truthfully ...This is another tale that rips off the page and says big, powerful things about sport, and about the frailties of big, powerful men
The Times
The most insightful of the post-Olympic books in which the super-human rower demonstrates a reflectiveness that is rare among sportspeople ... He writes superbly
Independent on Sunday
A gripping account of his life and most recent times. He deftly conveys the sheer effort needed to survive the brutal training regimes in top-level rowing, as well as the obsessive intensity that brought him his Olympic haul
Independent
I much enjoyed Matthew Pinsent's A Lifetime in a Race, partly because he wrote it himself, partly because he turned out to be such a likeable and interesting guy, and partly because it gently taught me a great deal about rowing
John Gaustad, Evening Standard
An honest and evocative read which details how winning a gold medal takes much more than "merely" winning a final
Daily Mail
Good looking, rich, a sublimely talented athlete and an excellent writer ... an incredible story adeptly told
Scotland on Sunday