Quotes About Training

When it comes to a fight, you need all your skill and professionalism, but if you want to win that fight, you have to bring a controlled rage as well. We're training to be warriors.

Know where your barrel is at all times, and know the condition of your weapon—loaded or unloaded, bolt forward or to the rear, round in the chamber or not, safety on or off. Keep your finger off the trigger unless you're going to kill something. This is basic; you have to do the basics right—we won't move to the next block of training until you get this one right.

Often, only the confidence instilled by repetition and drill can get them moving. Often, there is a fine line between preparation and bravery.

There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team

For all his faults, Captain Sobel had seen that the men were highly proficient in conducting nocturnal patrols and movement. The problems associated with forced marches across country, through woods, night compass problems, errors in celestial navigation, had all been overcome in the months preceding D-Day. Prior to the invasion, Easy Company had experienced every conceivable problem of troop movement under conditions of limited visibility.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend....

The old bookseller had learnt at the seminary that when it comes to conceiving transcendent things, minds vary enormously in their capacity, and the trained mind is a very different matter to the untrained; and the mind that is conditioned by music and incense and dim lights has very different capacities to the mind that goes at the job in cold blood.

Though actually kids did not need liberating except from normative training. So it was an anti-colonial project of a sort to defend children from the state.

I'm training my left hand to write, in case I lose the ability in my right. That's gymnastics for the dying.

Remember, the more you exercise the brain, the fitter it becomes.

No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded. —FROM A STUDY OF ASSASSINATION, A CIA TRAINING MANUAL, 1954

I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

To be successful in life what you need is education.

Discipline is not a light switch. Discipline is a way of life.

We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.