Training Quotes

• I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • Training
  • Military

• I didn't train for powerlifting. I trained as a bodybuilder. I had to train to stress the muscle and not because of what was on the bar. I think my strategy was a good one because I have no aches, pains, or lingering injuries from training today. I feel great.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Today

• Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training.

  

  Charles Handy
  • School
  • Home
  • Control

• I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.

  

  Art Donovan
  • Remember
  • Training
  • Marine

• I did three years training for stage in drama school.

  

  Elliot Knight
  • School
  • Training
  • Drama

• Students and postdoctoral fellows largely depend on the support of the public sector to finance the training and research that will make them world-renowned scientists.

  

  Carol W. Greider
  • World
  • Support
  • Training

• In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Training

• Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

  

  Bobby Scott
  • Work
  • Job
  • Education

• …but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Truth
  • Training
  • Conversation

• Doing the soaps, every day it's constant training. Dealing with camera angles, the other people - it's great training.

  

  Billy Magnussen
  • People
  • Great
  • Training

• Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio training for the day.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Skating
  • iPod
  • Cardio

• I've had a lot more fun with the training.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Fun
  • Training

• But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Today
  • Freedom
  • Listening

• Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Training

• Over the years, I have really figured out what works for me. It's not about what anyone else is doing. I can't worry about whether I am doing everything that another player is doing, which can be hard sometimes. I have to trust my training and know my body and figure out what will get the best out of me.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Trust
  • Player
  • Worry

• When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Culture

• I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Better

• I've never had vocal training. No one could ever say that they helped me carve what my voice has become. It's just been more of self-training: me just continuously going into the studio every night and trying out different beats.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Night

• My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Water
  • Athlete
  • Drinking

• I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Art
  • War

• Zack Snyder is a huge fan of 'Game of Thrones,' and I met him in the training stunt facility that I train at, and I guess he really liked me because he later called me into his office, and we talked about playing Aquaman.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Game
  • Training

• My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Opportunity

• Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Calm

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