20 quotes about Training

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

— Ali, Muhammad

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

— Bacon, Francis

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

— Burrell, Leroy

Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it.

— Collins, Arthur

People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.

— Connors, Jimmy

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

— Cousins, Norman

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

— Elizabeth, Queen

The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.

— Gouthey, A. P.

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.

— Jennings, Lynn

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline... I firmly believe that any man's finest hour-this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious.

— Lombardi, Vince

Train everyone lavishly, you can't overspend on training.

— Peters, Thomas J.

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

— Petronius

The truth is that most busy people cannot sustain a seven-day-a-week training schedule. There are too many other stresses and responsibilities in their lives.

— Plumber, PattiSue

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

— Schwarzenegger, Arnold

I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

— Shero, Fred

I swam my brains out.

— Spitz, Mark

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

— Staubach, Roger

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

— Twain, Mark

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with a college education.

— Twain, Mark

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

— Walker, Herschel