Quotes About Training

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

marksmanship on the rifle range was not as good as his drill instructors expected. Some called his work "sloppy." When

winning is beyond our control, while preparation is 100 percent under our control.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

The organization must respect its people, continually educating, training, challenging, and empowering them. Any organization that thinks itself Lean has to see its people as its most prized asset, and this asset must be stimulated, celebrated, and compensated properly.

At a practical level, they build very precise routines for managing energy in all spheres of their lives—eating and sleeping; working out and resting; summoning the appropriate emotions; mentally preparing and staying focused; and connecting regularly to the mission they have set for themselves. Although most of us spend little or no time systematically training in any of these dimensions, we are expected to perform at our best for eight, ten and even twelve hours a day.

PRINCIPLE 3: To build capacity, we must push beyond our normal limits, training in the same systematic way that elite athletes do.

Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth. In order to build strength in a muscle we must systematically stress it, expending energy beyond normal levels. Doing so literally causes microscopic tears in the muscle fibers. At the end of a training session, functional capacity is diminished. But give the muscle twenty-four to forty-eight hours to recover and it grows stronger and better able to handle the next stimulus.

The performance demands that most people face in their everyday work environments dwarf those of any professional athletes we have ever trained.

The benefits of a sustained fitness program decrease significantly after just one week of inactivity—and disappear altogether in as few as four weeks.

Chronological age is fixed. Biological age can be modified with training.

I studied secondary education.

Every dollar you spend on training saves you two dollars on advertising.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.

If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

it's better to prepare the speaker than the speech,

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incapable of intelligence, training, or connection with a tradition who are described as working by instinct or intuition.

It's like going into the ring against Ali when all I've done to train is eat doughnuts and binge-watch Rocky.

A man without discipline is no better than a dog. A soldier without discipline is no better than a corpse. Worse, in fact. A corpse is no threat to his comrades.