"I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." - Muhammad Ali


"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." - Francis Bacon


"The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me." - Leroy Burrell


"Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it." - Arthur Collins


"People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit." - Jimmy Connors


"We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America." - Norman Cousins


"It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained." - Queen Elizabeth


"The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself." - A. P. Gouthey


"I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is." - Lynn Jennings


"I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline... I firmly believe that any man's finest hour-this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious." - Vince Lombardi


"Train everyone lavishly, you can't overspend on training." - Thomas J. Peters


"The truth is that most busy people cannot sustain a seven-day-a-week training schedule. There are too many other stresses and responsibilities in their lives." - PattiSue Plumber


"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just as exercise conditions the body." - Arnold Schwarzenegger


"I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath." - Fred Shero


"I swam my brains out." - Mark Spitz


"Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts." - Roger Staubach


"A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy." - Mark Twain


"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with a college education." - Mark Twain


"My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else." - Herschel Walker