Training Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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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• Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

  Jeremy Irons

  Aptitude, Theater

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth. Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political and cultural idea.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Struggle, Ideas

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

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• You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Winning, Dedication

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• The only thing that helps you win the game is preparation and getting your mind ready to go to battle. That's what you've got to do.

  Mark Richt

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  Major Taylor

  Confidence, Sports, Champion

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Most train to be part of the game. The greatest train to be the game: I am the game. Third-and-9, two-minutes left, that's what I train for. I train for moments everyone runs from. I run for them.

  Michael Irvin

  Running, Games, Two

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• Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

  Samantha Stosur

  Games, Intense Training, Tennis

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

  Ian Thorpe

  Sports, Thinking, People

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

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• I think about how a guy mentally prepared himself to do battle, to go out and face the pitcher. I think so many hitters do not know how to get themselves prepared to play or hit against a pitcher. You have to mentally be prepared to hit against all pitchers.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Games, Chess, Helping

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• We have to be mentally prepared for every team we play. If we play a team who has a big name on their chests, then we are going to come out ready. But if we play a team who doesn't have a big name or a star player, we have a hard time coming out ready.

  Rajon Rondo

  Basketball, Stars, Team

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• I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.

  Glenn Turner

  Sports, Opportunity, Play

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• Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste

  Zentatsu Richard Baker

  Years, Gone, Waste

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• I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

  Joan Blades

  Inclination, Mediators

  "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.

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• Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Overcoming, Sometimes

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

  Socrates

  Music, Grace, Soul

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• Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Night, Mind

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• The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

  Joel Garreau

  Animal, Law, Temperature

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• Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

  Keeth Smart

  Sports, Athletic, Competition

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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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• 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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