Training Quotes - Page 9

• You can tell when someone has been on steroids A guy bulks up, has a new body and never gets tired...You see these guys or girls who come onto the tour talking about their new training programs and their diets where they eat this or that new thingbut they'll never tell you about the drugs they took.

  John McEnroe

  Girl, Tired, Talking

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• We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

  Archilochus

  Wisdom, Fall, Warrior

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• For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Practice, People, Special

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• And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

  Alan Shepard

  Thinking, Research And Development, Design

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• I'm always having fun in training and in boxing. I think it's because boxing is my passion.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Fun, Passion, Thinking

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• Nobody can say that I’m lazy in training.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Motivation, Lazy, Fighter

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• If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.

  George Soros

  Skills, Survival, Use

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• What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose

  Philip Pullman

  Writing, Form, Strict

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• Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

  Linda Sue Park

  Reading, Athlete

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• As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Years, Intellectual, Sixteen

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Dinner, Drink

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

  Brooks Robinson

  Spring, Years, Best Times

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• As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.

  David Blaine

  Pain, Simple, Thinking

  "How I held my breath for 17 minutes". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2009.

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• By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other young men into a battlefield where one of them will die. And when you have women in that situation, it creates a whole new set of dynamics which are distracting to training these men to kill or be killed.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Military, School, Men

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. September 15, 2010.

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• This was an extremely difficult decision as I take great pride in representing our country. I know that I owe it to my USA Basketball teammates to be totally invested in the experience. After going through training camp with USAB, I realized I could not fulfill my responsibilities to the team from both a time and energy standpoint. I need to take a step back and take some time away, both mentally and physically in order to prepare for the upcoming NBA season. I will be rooting for USAB and look forward to future opportunities with them.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Country, Team

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• I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Football, Business

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• Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Children, Years, House

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• The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Stupid, Keys

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• Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

  Margaret Fuller

  Education, Knives, Doe

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.60

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• It's really all about your training. Whatever you train for, you'll be ready for.

  Nadine Faustin-Parker

  Track, Ready, Train

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• Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Order, Track, Challenges

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Trying, Spirit

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Pause for Power: A 365-Day Journey through the Scriptures”, p.278, David C Cook

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• Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Suffering, Trust In God

  Charles Stanley (2010). “In Step With God: Understanding His Ways and Plans for Your Life”, p.166, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

  Billy Zane

  Trust, Character, Psychology

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• Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.

  Arthur Lynch

  Education, Children, Interesting

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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