#raining

Muzzle control has to be a religion. You cannot point that weapon at one of your brothers-or yourself. Know where you barrel is at all times, and know the condition of your weapon-loaded or unloaded, bolt forward or to the rear, round in the chamber or not, safety on or off. Keep your finger off the trigger unless you're going to kill something. ↗

— Dick Couch

#combat-training #firearms #weapons #religion

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ↗

— Sean Astin

#eating #finish #four #goal #hardest

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like. ↗

— David Baldacci

#been #cool #down #i #joined

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#committed #completely #could #day #every

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

Marathons are good training goals. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#good #training

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#boring #experimental #gifted #good #involve

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#english #foreigner #independent #only #social

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#born #brave #discipline #few #few men

We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces. ↗

— Pat Roberts

#economic #forces #full #government #helping