Quotes About Training

My priority is always playing tennis and practising and doing my schedule with my tennis.

I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.

The schedule is tough in tennis.

When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.

I gave up tennis to study, but not before it had shown me how to focus and concentrate. It taught me self-discipline: I was playing four or five hours a day and doing five-mile runs. When I stopped, my energy had to be channelled into something else.

My family are tennis coaches, and they always brought me to the tennis club. I basically had no other option than to start playing tennis.

I don't like running that much, and during the off-season, I have to do it, but if I can replace it with tennis, it is better.

I started playing tennis when I was 4 or 5 years old.

It is for sure a big part of the coach's job to make sure the tennis does not get neglected.

I was a tennis player in high school and college.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

Constant tension should be applied to the last five reps of every working set, meaning, do the first 5-6 reps normal tempo, and the last few reps should be held for at least two seconds at the peak of the contraction. This allows your muscles to have more time under tension, and you work different muscle fibers.

There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It is something I do. But I don't want that term to limit what I can do. I prefer people to say to me, 'You're one of my favorite actors,' rather than 'You're one of my favorite character actors.' It sounds like a slam.

Within the government, within the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, you have practically eliminated any training or any use of the term 'radical Islam.' That's what we're facing.

I believe the term 'head coach' has been misunderstood, though not by Slavisa nor nearly every one of the other candidates we interviewed. Slavisa avidly embraces the concept of head coach, which is to be on the pitch, training, organising, planning, and everything that comes in preparing for and leading the Club on match day.

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

Hills are terrific for running.

I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

I'm terrified of having to go back to a day job. And that's why I'm training like a man possessed. Because I want to keep winning.

When I first started training, I guess the fact that I was undersized, it just didn't register initially. Obviously, I knew I wasn't huge and there were some bigger guys in the territories at the time, but I guess I never looked at it as a hinderance.

Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.

When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field.