#training

Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#cycling #training #love

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#soldiers #war #freedom

My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary. ↗

— Peter Agre

#clinical #develop #felt #goal #i

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#any #being #career #cocky #confident

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#big #challenge #competition #disappointments #enjoy

And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#ample #assistance #decent #families #gangs

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice. ↗

— Jill Scott

#grade #i #listening #more #practice

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal. ↗

— David Selby

#believe #deal #great #great deal #i

At 28, you need recovery time after training. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#need #recovery #time #training #you

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless. ↗