Quotes About Training Hard

#1. I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Deena Kastor

#2. It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

Paula Radcliffe

#3. I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy.

Ronnie Coleman

#4. Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age.

Gerry Lindgren

#5. At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

Hermann Maier

#6. When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable.

Luke Evans

#7. I should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.

Tomoki Kameda

#8. Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.

Georges St-Pierre

#9. If you're not falling, you're not training hard enough.

Michelle Trachtenberg

#10. 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

#11. I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

Inge De Bruijn

#12. The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

Ben Vereen

#13. What you put into your body is just as important as how hard you dance. I believe with the right training and an understanding of how to take care of your body, you can mold it to be whatever you want it to be.

Misty Copeland

#14. Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Jackie Chan

#15. You had to work tremendously hard. You had to have that commitment to training, you had to have that innate ability. It's similar in my profession as well. You can have the ability, but without the work, passion and the commitment, you won't really get there.

Paul Rankin

#16. It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training.

George Foreman

#17. There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.

Landon Donovan

#18. Hard work and training. There's no secret formula.

Ronnie Coleman

#19. I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.

Philippe Perrin

#20. When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#21. Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.

Toks Olagundoye

#22. I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

Liam Neeson

#23. I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

Vijender Singh

#24. The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn't do what we do without the classical training. It's a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play.

Luka Sulic

#25. You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.

Warren Cuccurullo

#26. I know it's hard for you to allow yourself to feel this. You've gone so long training yourself to block the feelings and emotions out any time someone touches you.

Colleen Hoover

#27. My 'go to' workout is called the Asylum from Beach Body. It's intense training with lots of intervals, core work. It's hard! I travel a lot, so I can take it on the road with me and do it in a hotel room.

Apolo Ohno

#28. All three of us are prisoners of our early indoctrinations, for it is hard, very nearly impossible, to shake off one's earliest training.

Robert A. Heinlein

#29. I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

Jens Voigt

#30. I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

Oksana Baiul

#31. It's very relaxing for me to sing. It's a good break from the hard training and the fighting.

Manny Pacquiao

#32. It would be hard to be deader without special training.

Terry Pratchett

#33. In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life.

James E. Faust

#34. Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

Michelle Kwan

#35. worked hard at it, all these months, trying to get my knee back in shape - again. I'd dealt with my first catastrophic knee injury four years ago, a training accident that occurred right after I returned from my first Olympics empty-handed. "But that's the point, Bly. I went through surgery

Laney Monday

#36. I think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.

Frank Lampard

#37. I do Nike Training Club, which is actually really hard and intense. I'm surprised every time I do it. I also use Map My Ride and Map My Run.

Julia Mancuso

#38. Behind me are a hard 2 weeks of training, so I feel a little bit tired right now, but my goal for the race in Cardiff and Pau remains the same as in all races. I want to do well and have good runs and enjoy racing. The results come by itself when I do that.

Peter Kauzer

#39. I do karate because it makes the rest of life easy. That is to say, karate training, if done properly, is tough: it's hard work, with little reward because your sensei never compliments you.

Scott Langley

#40. It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF IN YOURSELF.

Branch Warren

#41. I don't lift weights at all. Every muscle on my body is for an actual task; there is no muscle that I train for show. If I want to be able to do a certain move or action, I train really hard until I can. And with all of that training comes muscle definition, so it's really an afterthought.

Ronda Rousey

#42. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

#43. Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont.

Andre Bramble

#44. Be confident in the work you did to prepare for the race. Take a look back at your training logs to remind yourself that you've done everything possible to prepare. The race is the fun part where you get to see the hard work pay off. Enjoy it.

Desiree Linden

#45. I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

Bryan Clay

#46. I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

Wayne Rooney

#47. During the hard training phase never be afraid to take a day off. If your legs are feeling unduly stiff and sore, rest; if you are at all sluggish, rest; in fact, if in doubt, rest.

Bruce Fordyce

#48. Whe you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful and polite, you have a hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true, that nothing is sincere. Maintaining nonbelief requires a tremendous effort and the proper training.

Milan Kundera

#49. I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life ... The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.

Gabe Jennings

#50. I love to run, but training can be hard, especially with a family and a crazy travel schedule. I often do sprints with my kids, where they bike and I run along side them so we can 'race' each other for a quarter-mile or shorter repeats.

Summer Sanders

#51. Work hard, play hard, stay hard. I coined it first back 1993.

Scott Deuty

#52. My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.

Pola Negri

#53. Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.

Nicola Sturgeon

#54. I'm really hard on myself as well, nothing is good enough for me in training. I always want more, I always want to give 100%. I use my training like a competition. I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

Sally Pearson

#55. Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living.

Annie F. Downs

#56. I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.

Warren Cuccurullo

#57. Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Eugene Paul Wigner

#58. After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

Elvis Presley

#59. All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

Alicia Witt

#60. I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.

Lionel Messi

#61. But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.

Elvis Stojko

#62. Training can be monotonous, and it is hard work, but you never lose sight of why you are doing it. Every single effort of every single session counts in the months and years leading up to a big event.

Chris Hoy

#63. Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

Andrew Johns

#64. I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

Alicia Vikander

#65. You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

Michael Chang

#66. Outside the ring I work hard when I train and I spend as much time as I can with my family when I'm not training.

Travis Browne

#67. Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.

Shoshin Nagamine

#68. When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.

Sophia Bush

#69. Elite runners are genetically gifted, sure, but without intense training, those gifts are wasted. Their training creates a strong work ethic that leaves humility in its wake. There are no short cuts in marathoning, so anyone who is a marathoner has worked hard.

Jeff Horowitz

#70. I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

Diana Lopez

#71. Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

Bebe Neuwirth

#72. 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

#73. Thomas stares at the floor between us with hollow eyes. "I loved him, June," he says after a moment. "I really did. Everything I did as a soldier, all my hard work and training, was to impress him." His guard is finally down, and I can see the true depth of his torture now.

Marie Lu

#74. Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

Jonah Lomu

#75. Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.

Reba McEntire

#76. Hard work ain't so easy, strength training is just plain old hard work and it ain't easy.

Mike Berry

#77. Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

Arne Jacobsen

#78. I constantly remind myself that resting takes confidence. Anyone can train like a mad man but to embrace rest and to allow all the hard training to come out takes mental strength.

Ryan Hall

#79. It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Michel De Montaigne

#80. My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.

Dominique Moceanu

#81. Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.

Alex Honnold

#82. Maybe it's a training exercise," Skye suggested, ignoring her friend's rudeness. "I wouldn't mind a little training with him. The personal kind, know what I mean?"
It would be hard not to know what she meant.

Cecily White

#83. In these hard moments, I must remember that much of my parenting and training results in invisible seeds in my child's heart instead of immediate changed behavior.

Amber Lia

#84. It's hard to peak when you've been training since 1965.

Dan John

#85. The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

Merrill Markoe

#86. Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

Sutton Foster

#87. Each runner's capacity to absorb hard training is different. Find your own unique level of comfort and success will be yours.

Hal Higdon

#88. You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

Pele

#89. I am not smart, I pay attention.
I am not considerate, I listen.
I am not patient, I make time.
I'm not lucky, I work hard.

Mark W. Boyer

#90. If you think training is hard...try losing.

Davee Jones

#91. It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.

Sofia Vergara

#92. The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

Bruce Lee

#93. It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

Jimmy Smits

#94. This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it!

Peter Kauzer

#95. Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.

Joan Benoit

#96. Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

Robert A. Heinlein

#97. The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

Frank Shorter

#98. Battle is a hard business, sister. Soft training will make for soft soldiers, who will in turn become soft corpses.

Anthony Ryan