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Quotes About Training

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
~ George S. Patton
An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
When the death of the man who taught them how to jump, along with a raging wildfire in the mountains of Montana, brings them together to train up a new team of jumpers, Kate and Jed have no idea the love they've been running from is about to ignite.
~ Susan May Warren
A Nigerian librarian told me that her library offers art and entrepreneurship training classes
~ Susan Orlean
During the last few hours of the trip, he and Tess had drilled procedures and done a whole lot of worst-case-scenario type war-gaming. He was now as convinced as he'd ever be that she knew what to do and where to go if Godzilla attacked Kazabek...
~ Suzanne Brockmann
What assignment?" Lucky asked. "If it's training an all-woman SEAL team, then, yes, thank you very much, I'm your man.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
You brought condoms on a training operation?" Harvard laughed as he opened one of the Velcro pockets of his vest. "Yeah. You did, too. You should have three or four in your combat vest. To put over our rifle barrels in case of heavy rain, remember?
~ Suzanne Brockmann
Humans are not put to sleep for failing to provide leadership for their dogs, countless dogs have lost their lives for the want of it.
~ Suzanne Clothier
You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.
~ Suzanne Collins
The final days of training ends with our private sessions. (...) There's a lot of kidding about it at lunch. What we might do. Sing, dance, strip, tell jokes. Mags, who I can understand a little better now, decides she's just going to take a nap.
~ Suzanne Collins
If you hit flesh, you're rewarded with a burst of fake blood. Our dummies are soaked in red.
~ Suzanne Collins
I don't even know why you bothered to put Finnick and me through training, Plutarch," I say.
~ Suzanne Collins
Johanna Mason is naked again and oiling her skin down for a wrestling lesson.
~ Suzanne Collins
It takes some adjusting from a bow to a gun, but by the end of the day, I've got the best score in my class.
~ Suzanne Collins
You get the feeling that the knot-tying class is not the Hunger Games hot spot.
~ Suzanne Collins
Peeta has asked to be coached separately.
~ Suzanne Collins
So, how about that training score. E-le-ven.
~ Suzanne Collins
The final day of training ends with our private sessions. We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemakers to amaze them with our skills, but I don't know what any of us might have to show them. There's a lot of kidding about it at lunch. What we might do. Sing, dance, strip, tell jokes. Mags, who I can understand a little better now, decides she's just going to take a nap.
~ Suzanne Collins
District 7. Lumber. I bet she's been tossing around axes since she could toddle.
~ Suzanne Collins
Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking Capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself," says Johanna. "Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.
~ Suzanne Collins
we tributes trained to gather fish and lumber and coal? What do we know about harnessing power from the sky?
~ Suzanne Collins
Whether it's his training or his natural disposition, Deacon is charming. The kind of charming that makes you feel like you're the only person in the world who matters. Until you don't anymore.
~ Suzanne Young