Quotes About Training

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.

My dad used to hear me humming songs while watching television and discovered I have a nice sweet tone which should be further trained and toned.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog whilst out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.

At the Jets training facility in Florham Park, N.J., we have strength and conditioning staff but also a nutritionist, Glen Tobias, who helps to whip everyone into shape. There is a heavy emphasis on grass-fed meat and on foods that aren't genetically modified.

When you choose the sword over a gun, just like Green Arrow chooses an arrow over a gun and Catwoman chooses a whip over a gun, you have to be highly skilled and highly trained. I can grab Green Arrow's bow, but I'm not strong enough to shoot it. I can grab Catwoman's whip, but have you ever tried to whip a whip? It's not easy.

I would be lying if I said I cut out all dessert. When I'm training, I try to satisfy those cravings with a slightly healthier dessert, like a piece of dark chocolate or whipped cream and strawberries. Those are two of my favorites!

A coach should go to practice with a whistle and I just clip a pen on it. It's really not complicated at all.

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

I've had to learn how to listen to my body over the years and figure out how it all works together. I'm not invincible, so focusing on training my whole body and injury prevention have been extremely important.

I work a lot in the gym on injury prevention.

I'm impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.

I work hard in the offseason for that situation - for injury prevention.

Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

When you're able to love and appreciate and take pride with yourself, that makes everything easier. It makes it easier to train, it makes it easier to be in the gym, and it makes it easier for everyone else to accept and love you.

I think, primarily, acting is like working out a muscle; the more you get to do it, the bigger that muscle gets.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

In Corpus Christi in 2000 I did primary flight training, and for all of 2001 I was in Kingsville for advanced flight training, and that's where I learned to fly jets.

A fighter in his prime needs to stay active. A fighter, who doesn't have certainty when he's going to fight again, it's hard for him to stay mentally ready.

A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of the home comes in.

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.