#raining

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body. ↗

— Venus Williams

#body #i #like #mind #much

What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself. ↗

— Liu Xiang

#i #i can #match #myself #performances

It's been said that adults spend the first two years of their children's lives trying to make them walk and talk, and the next sixteen years trying to get them to sit down and shut up. It's the same way with potty training: Most adults spend the first few years of a child's life cheerfully discussing pee and poopies, and how important it is to learn to put your pee-pee and poo-poo in the potty like big people do. But once children have mastered the art of toilet training, they are immeadiately forbidden to ever talk about poop, pee, toilets and other bathroom-related subjects again. Such things are now considered rude and vulgar, and are no longer rewarded with praise and cookies and juice boxes. One day you're a superstar because you pooped in the toilet like a big boy, and the next day you're sitting in the principal's office because you said the word "poopy" in American History class (which, if you ask me, is the perfect place to say that word). ↗

— Dav Pilkey

#potty-humor #toilet-training #art

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#composition #example #expose #for example #i

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#acid #alcohol #am #bad #ban

And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#alcohol #bed #being #doping #drink

I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#cross #form #games #i #i do

When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#actually #against #always #comes #country

In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#although #cop #enough #film #france

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#i #like #me #most #my time