597 Quotes About Training

Jiu Jitsu is meant to serve us, not the other way around. It is meant to make you more of whatever it is you already are. It is meant to separate the wheat from the chaff. It is meant to bring to conscious attention all that once went unseen. It is meant to make you more loving. It is meant to make you more wise, but less certain. It is meant to make us humble, yet supremely confident. It is meant to remind us of our frailty while simultaneously making us feel invincible.

We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.

Train, don't strain.

You must train regularly and there are rarely any shortcuts.

Finding the perfect training partner is a challenge. It’s not enough to have someone who matches your speed; you also have to find someone whose company you enjoy over lots of miles. I have plenty of friends perfect for a dinner party or a coffee chat, but if I had to share a 16-mile run through the desert with some of those same people, it’s highly likely only one of us would return to the trailhead.

The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence.

There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts.

There’s a fine line between child-like – learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff – and being child-ish.

Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge