Training Quotes

My best training came from my father.

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

To go in the direction that I went takes a lot of work. And I don't think you can do the work - the five or six hours of working out a day - if you don't have a clear goal or know why you're doing it. If you just hang out at the gym and train for five or six hours a day without a goal is almost impossible.

The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.

A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

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

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.

Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

You fight like you train.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

If you are training leaders, because you need them, you are too late.

Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!

I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.

I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.

Boards don't hit back.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I'm a competitive bodybuilder; I'm not training just to be healthy. Ninety-five percent of the people training with weights are into this health thing, and it's a different mentality entirely.

The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.

My only rule is to keep moving, for a pump and cardio at the same time. Rest as little as possible. After an hour, you will feel fantastic and your muscles won't know what hit them.

If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice, no beans, certainly no sweets.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.

Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

When I'm fit I know I'll give my best in each training session to give myself a chance of playing.

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.