Quotes About Training

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.

He who sweats more in training bleeds less in battle.

With the publication of Running & Being in 1978, George Sheehan's voice became the voice of a movement, sounding a clarion call to hundreds of thousands of people to abandon their sedentary ways, take to the streets, and run. Today, there are millions of us lacing up our running shoes, training for 5-Ks, 10-Ks, half-marathons, and marathons—each trudging the same path of fitness and self-discovery that he blazed decades before.

The athlete doesn't stop smoking and start training. He starts training and finds he has stopped smoking.

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another.

personal safety. The solution lies in your mind. Your ability to detect danger, your reaction when you spot potential danger, and your reaction when an attack finally happens. These aspects of personal security can only be learned through self-defense training.

It's the four Ds, Corvus. Dress. Discipline. And dealing death.

Meditate. Your heart and lymph vessels are constantly responding to your thoughts and emotions. Meditation is the process of training the mind to become

The work will teach you how to do it.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

It's good to play, and you must keep in practice.

When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Let they child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away.

I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.

Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

The way you get better at playing football is to play football.

There is wonderful meaning in the common every-day happenings, the little things that come up in the daily routine, which most of us lose sight of, and that is, the opportunity they give for character building, for mental training, for the object of all of life's endeavor — man-building and woman-building. Your name and face may never appear in the newspapers or magazines, but every day you have an opportunity to live a beautiful life, a helpful life.

God has His own training methods, and it is usually true that His way up first leads down, for the mountain is only as high as the valley is deep.