Training Quotes - Page 23

• The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique and training, but if he cannot win the confidence and comradeship of his pupils he will never be a good coach

  Franz Stampfl

  Sports, Jobs, Winning

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• What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

  Lois Lowry

  Preparation, Important, Adults

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

  Peter DeFazio

  Should, Force, Security

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• I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Character, Men, Intellectual

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• Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what makes an athlete great. It's too easy to credit Pistorius' success to technology. Through birth or circumstance, some are given certain gifts, but it's what one does with those gifts, the hours devoted to training, the desire to be the best, that is at the true heart of a champion.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Heart, Athlete, Technology

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• Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and that with proper training you can quickly reap the benefits of this enormous potential.

  Tony Buzan

  Powerful, Eye, Brain

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• We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of our deluded conditioning. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness; it is a revolutionary stance from the inside out, for the benefits of all beings in existence.

  Noah Levine

  Selfish, Pursuit Of Happiness, Mind

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• Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

  Erwin Rommel

  Errors, Paper, Stones

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• Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Sports, Fitness, Knives

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• I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

  Alan Perlis

  Learning, Technology, Thinking

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• In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

  Bobby Sherman

  Cpr, Years, Police

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• Training was one thing, reality another.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Reality, Statistics, One Thing

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Rendezvous With Rama”, p.199, RosettaBooks

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• The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

  Ruth Benedict

  Body, Spirit, Rise Above

  Ruth Benedict (2006). “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Warrior, Wake Up, Benefits

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• There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

  Pele

  Get Better, Harder, Better Than You

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• The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Player, Hands

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• I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources

  Barbara Mikulski

  Firefighter, Needs, Proud

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• I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

  Richard Marcinko

  Combat

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• Nobody's more serious about health and fitness than me and staying fit is my top priority, That's why I've teamed up with Medifast to bring my fans a line of products that are packed with everything the body needs to get in better shape and improve their health. I use the products every day as part of my training.

  Ray Lewis

  Priorities, Lines, Serious

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• Spring training is for getting to know your teammates and forming a chemistry. I dont like it.

  Torii Hunter

  Spring, Teammate, Chemistry

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• How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these gentlemen sell consumer goods, not an art form.

  Rod Serling

  Meaningful, Art, Drama

  "American Masters (Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval)". TV Series, November 29, 1995.

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• The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount of time, energy, thought and training an individual has previously accomplished in an effort to increase his ability as a fighter pilot.

  Pappy Boyington

  Air, Effort, Battle

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• Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.

  Linus Pauling

  Drug, Vitamins, Taught

  Linus Pauling (1987). “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”

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• Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.

  Don Mattingly

  Spring, Consistency, Want

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