#raining

Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court - that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#caught #court #during #enough #happened

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#chancellor #clutches #comes #depriving #escaping

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#acted #art #because #excellence #habit

I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

#gaza #i #level #most #my own

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#basis #moral #our #should #training

The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so. ↗

— Tony Bennett

#audience #because #energy #got #great

We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#after #all day #because #camp #day

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#capacity #genius #productive #reaction #training

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#been #call #i #limited #might

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. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#i #joe #lasted #over #spent