Quotes About Training

I think actors do need some hand holding to know what they are doing.

I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.

The holidays are important, but the path I've chosen doesn't take that into consideration. I do what I can to enjoy them, but it's one of the sacrifices of being an athlete.

I think we have very good facilities for the youth in Holland. We have very good youth coaches and I think that is some of the reasons that always Holland has very good football players.

The only thing that's difficult is sometimes it's nice to be able to separate your home life from training life.

I don't hit home runs in BP.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

I am learning a lot as a theatre artiste as it gives lots of opportunities to hone my skills as an actor.

In all honesty, I just love car deadlifts.

There is nothing like a 'born actor.' It's all about honing the skills.

I'm hooked on martial arts.

I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.

I love leg locks and heel hooks and kneebars. They're complex and hard to avoid.

My biggest thing I've learned is just putting time into getting ready. When we're young, you just go on the court and just hoop. But I think as you get older, it's more about, making sure everything is firing and making sure everything is ready to go and warmed up.

It's good to have somebody who is there to see you day-to-day, even hop into some runs with you.

If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'

You cannot break a horse until they're about 2 years old. You can halter-break them, meaning teach them how to lead and stuff, if you choose to, but you can't really break them until they're 2 because there aren't developed enough, you know what I mean? It would be like a 5-year-old playing football or something, you know?

I'm working my horses every day and absolutely loving it. I'm training seven horses but I'm looking to build to 16.

If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.

It isn't called dressage any more - it is called 'dancing horses.'

Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run around.

I've worked with horses since I was a little kid.

Well, actually I think it's very important with breeding thoroughbreds - which I did for a period - and my husband is head of the Kennel Club, and it's very important with dogs and horses, because otherwise things go wrong in the competitions.