Quotes About Training

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

You can only fight the way you practice

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

You train best where you are the happiest.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

Confidence comes from being prepared.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.

I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.