Quotes About Training
As we had drilled for, over years.
~ Gregory Benford
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Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a novelist. He had said "an unhappy childhood." Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he wondered if this whole expedition was unfolding more like a novel, and would be blamed on one person, one character, the guy in charge: him. Maybe you got a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that's how novels worked.
~ Gregory Benford
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He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.
~ Gregory David Roberts
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I was trying to break world records in cycling.
~ Chris Hoy
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When you start lifting weights in the offseason in like November, you're like, 'Ah, I'm going to get this thing up so I can get to the World Series.'
~ Gerrit Cole
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Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.
~ Leon Day
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
~ R. W. Apple, Jr.
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I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
~ Sander Levin
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
~ Barack Obama
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Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.
~ Mary Lou Retton
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Training with world-class players week in, week out has only made me a better player and I'm thankful for that.
~ Phil Jones
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman that comes in, and we ask them to do an awful lot, sometimes more than we expect of ourselves, and they do that.
~ Michael Mullen
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You get a world-class athlete like Hershel Walker, who was a Heisman trophy winner and did some amazing things, but he had a martial arts background. He did kickboxing. He had a combat sports background. It was just rekindling that training and that martial arts workout ethic. He got back into it and did quite well.
~ Scott Coker
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Day-to-day training with world-class players, there is no better feeling than that.
~ Ross Barkley
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At Chelsea I knew I'd improve a lot quicker around better players, world-class players.
~ Ross Barkley
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World-class midfield players get their share of goals and that's something I want to add to my game.
~ Scott Parker
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My videogame mind died after they stopped making wonderful escape worlds - every game just turned into me training to be in the army. But I used to love the Oddworld and 'Abe's Exoddus' and 'Abe's Oddysee' for Playstation.
~ El-P
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I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.
~ Brandon Lee
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I try and make it possible for beginners to start training MMA and not be scared of it as a sport. I try to actually give them the skill set that is necessary - to feel comfortable, maybe not on a big level. And not just Russia, but worldwide.
~ Fedor Emelianenko
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To stand up to worldwide competition, we need a very strong set-up at home that produces athletes right from the beginner's level and has the sustained back-up for the same athlete to finally go and win an Olympic medal.
~ Abhinav Bindra
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Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver systems for producing material usable in weapons.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
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