Training Quotes - Page 21

• It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Risk, Speak, Reports

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• You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.

  Fabiano Caruana

  Play, Long, Together

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• The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.

  Alexander Kotov

  Typical, Chess, Study

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• Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in trim by daily analysis of positions with sharp possibilities, and this applies whether he prefers such positions in his play or not.

  Alexander Kotov

  Practice, Play, Vision

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• I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.

  Humpy Koneru

  Exercise, Player, Mind

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• Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Country, Player, Air

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It follows that regular physical conditioning should be part of your overall chess training.

  Pal Benko

  Body, Chess, Dramatic

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• Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?

  Hans Kmoch

  Boxing, Shadow, Important

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• The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mom, Spiritual, Real

  "Mindful Parenting". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 1998.

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• Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Opportunity, Player, Quality

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• Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Analysis, Chess, Form

  Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• LIFE IS A DIVINE GIFT. The divine is not something outside of us; it is right in our very center; it is our freedom. In our training, we learn the real nature of life and death. When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Real, Struggle, Warrior

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• DAILY TRAINING in the Art of Peace allows your inner divinity to shine brighter and brighter. Do not concern yourself with the right and wrong of others. Do not be calculating or act unnaturally. Keep your mind focused on the Art of Peace, and do not criticize other teachers or traditions. The Art of Peace never restrains or shackles anything. It embraces all and purifies everything.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teacher, Art, Shining

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Practice, Evil

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Grateful, People

  "The Art of Peace". Book by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

  Stephanie Rice

  Love Is, Thinking, Race

  "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.

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• You've got to be a little bored to be doing really good training.

  Marty Liquori

  Bored, Littles

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• During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

  Marty Liquori

  Running, Horse, Distance

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• But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

  Hamid Karzai

  Motivation, War, Believe

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• Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste

  Zentatsu Richard Baker

  Years, Gone, Waste

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• Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

  Joshua Foer

  Fun, Memories, Eye

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• Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it's not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn't going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It's not about that. It's about training right

  Mark Sanchez

  Strong, Lifting Weights, Important

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• The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

  Neil Young

  Strong, Artist, Yield

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• To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Taste, Suits

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• Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Teamwork, Years, Track

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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