Quotes About Training

Then the soldiers went to Mexico and it was a kind of painful picnic. Nobody knows why you go to a picnic to be uncomfortable when it is so easy and pleasant to eat at home. The Mexican War did two good things though. We got a lot of western land, damn near doubled our size, and besides that it was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murder settled on us the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

In Aikido, we train not to learn how to win; we train to learn to emerge victorious in any situation.

Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you.

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.

If any one premise typifies my teams in all the years I've coached, it is this concept. Often as a player, I'd tell myself, I may play someone better than I am, but I'll never run against one who is going to be in better condition And I never played against a man in my life I felt was in better shape, and Lambert often cited me as an example of top conditioning.

The word discipline comes from disciple, someone who is in a position to learn.

So the training in mindfulness that we will be exploring together is really the cultivation of a resource that is already ours.

Bhavana translates as "development through mental training." To me, this strikes the mark; meditation really is about human development.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever. They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.

Gabriel drew the strength up his calves and thighs to spin himself in a dizzying turn. Most angels didn't take the time to train their legs, but Gabriel wasn't like most angels.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.

Mexican style of boxing training is different from what my father had trained me. It was good for me because it was an added knowledge, an addition to my boxing IQ.

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

My father played five years for Valence in France's second division. I'd always cry when he would leave for training. Every morning, I'd say, 'Dad, take me with you. Please, please take me with you!'

Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained.

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.