training Quotes

“It is now during the first ten days of the tenth month in the twentieth year of Kanei (1645). I am sixty years old and I have been training many years in the Way of strategy called Ni Ten Ichi Try. I will now explain it in writing for the first time.”

“By training you will be able to freely control your own body, conquer men with your body, and with sufficient training you will be able to beat men in fights, be able to win with your eye, and beat ten men with your spirit. When you have reached this point, will it not mean you are invincible?”

“He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.”

“The Great Birthday Bird! [...] This bird has a brain. He’s most beautifully brained with the brainiest bird-brain that’s ever been trained.”

“They were an all-star football team that had endured bruising, exhausting, dangerous practice sessions twelve hours a day, seven days a week—for years—without ever getting to play a game.”

“No man sees all ... but ... you’ll see more ... than some men see in a lifetime. ”

“Habit will be your champion. When you train the mind to think one way and one way only, when you refuse to allow it to think in another, that will produce great strength in battle.”

“Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.”

“This chronicle of the lives of Micky and Cracker, an Irish wolfhound and a bull terrier, with tips on training, curing bad habits, feeding, and much more. This classic abounds in charming stories and enchanting illustrations by a true dog love.”

“The best way of all is to teach him to line in one particular place during your meal times and to see that his place is well out of way of the service department.”

“In the military we always say we don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”

“In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information was control.”

“All the same, he couldn’t keep away from the Sable Island horses. They were being trained in a paddock down by the waterfront. Willie ran there after school, whistling all the way, his pockets filled with wild apples.”

It was up to Johnny to keep in touch with Dove. It was all right for Rab to talk. Rab was training with the armed forces. But what could Johnny do? Not much, it seemed to him, except be bored to death for his country.

“Take him away,” he said to Father Wolf, “and train him as befits one of the Free People.”