Top 55 Training Ground Quotes

For ages I thought I’d wasted my career doing visual effects, I wanted to be a filmmaker. And then I’ve learnt at the end of it all that actually visual effects was probably the best training ground I could have had.

Films like ‘Bond’ fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there’s no money there for films to be made, it’s like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

In Italy, after a few defeats, it’s quite common for the team to have to stay at the training ground for a few days, rather than go home.

Hibs are such a brilliant club, amazing training ground, good coaches, and a great platform for Scottish players to get better.

If you want a measure of how private a place the dressing room was when I was growing up at Manchester United, consider this: even Sir Alex Ferguson would knock before coming into the dressing room at the Cliff, the old training ground. The dressing room is for the players – and the players only.

I think Syria is now the training ground for the world… These rebel forces are more of a threat than anything.

Leading is every day in the training ground, every game and everyone is doing their job to lead the team in the way they think is best.

The soap opera was so long ago – the thing about soap operas, and there’s something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don’t want to say it’s a training ground; it really isn’t, but what it does teach you is discipline.

Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.

When you are injured – and injured for a while – it is hard. You have to go to the training ground and watch everyone go out to play.

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

Conte speaks a lot with the players, also on the pitch and on the training ground, preparing very well for the games.

I have trained, but not really that much professionally. But ‘ABCD2’ has been the biggest training ground. I’ve been exposed to and learnt so many dance forms through this film.

When you have done your job well at the training ground, when you know your player is following you, there is no reason to stress the match day.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the ’50s and ’60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.

Cologne was my big team, my favourite team. I trained one week in Cologne, and they asked me to sign for Cologne. At 17 or 18, the coach asked me to go the first-team training ground. I was lucky to have that coach.

We were all in love with the club. We went to bed with Sampdoria pajamas on, while going to the Bogliasco training ground in the morning was always a joy: the blue of the sea on one side, the green of the hills on the other. Wonderful.

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

Burnley Football Club helped me mature from a boy to a man and I can’t thank them everyone from the club enough, from the board to the staff at the training ground and the staff at the club.

I go to the training ground early in the morning, between 7:30 A.M. and 8:30 A.M. Not just me, my staff. Then, sometimes I leave at 8 P.M. or 6 P.M.

If you pay attention, stand-up can be great improv training ground. But one of the things that helped me the most was doing warm-up for the ‘Mr. Show’ tapings way back when.

I’ve always been one of those players that when I went to the training ground, I’d always have my eye on the fans.

Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors – Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn’t a woman?

When I was young I used to watch the Premier League and of course I knew of Tottenham because of Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa. I speak more with Ossie because I see him more at the training ground than Ricky.

Television is an excellent training ground for a director. If you work consistently in television, as I did, you have to come in on time and on budget. What you are allowed in feature films are, fortunately, more time and a larger budget.

But I will say that TV was a great education for me. It allowed me to develop techniques for getting the job done. It’s the best training ground since B movies.

One of the biggest challenge for me is when you have Mo Salah and Sadio Mane at the training ground. Then you know where you are.

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.

‘Maya Nadhi’ came soon after ‘Njandu.’ I auditioned twice, before being chosen. The shoot is so much fun and is a big training ground for a debutante like me.

London is a very big city, Manchester is calmer. I live near the training ground, so I do things around there in the countryside, but I really like Manchester’s Northern Quarter, where they have nice coffee shops and live music places.

The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

It’s tough for us to fight against those who have the microphone. We try and respond on the pitch, playing as well as possible, and dedicating ourselves on the training ground.

Being a mother is the ultimate training ground for anything.

There was no other training ground like kids’ telly for becoming a TV presenter.

In England, you can’t enter the training ground without permission, whereas in Denmark, you are free to go in.

We work hard in the gym; we work on set plays, which are massive. We work really hard on them on the training ground.

My training ground has been my interest in watching movies. Unlike most other directors, I haven’t assisted anyone.

My upbringing was in the church. We had to attend regularly. And, of course, the church provided a training ground for me, so to speak, as a young vocalist and certainly gave me all of the spiritual values that I needed as a young lady.

Every day we need to get better, on the training ground and when we play. It takes time.

The AON Training Complex is not a training ground now: it’s a village. It is difficult for anyone to keep tabs on everything.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that’s my job. It’s no one else’s.

As a manager I always trusted my players on Christmas Day. I did not see any point in dragging them into the training ground – a three-hour round-trip for some of them on icy roads – when they could relax with their families instead.

We have a priest at Inter Milan and a chapel at the training ground. That is where I was baptised and confirmed into the church.

When Chelsea let me go, it was really deflating. For me, as a youngster, it’s all I ever knew – living 10 minutes from the training ground, going to loads of the games.

When you go to the training ground day after day, there’s times when you don’t want to do it, especially when you see all the boys go out to training.

There is no doubt I’m learning new things and progressing with David Moyes. The sessions we have on the training ground are fantastic, and I’m learning a lot from them every day.

I had wanted to play for Penarol since I was a boy. When I was young, I would go to their training ground, but at 18, I left Uruguay for Argentina, and my professional career started.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

And, for me, there is a passion in managing or coaching, whether it is working on a training ground or dealing with a 16-year-old who has a problem I can help him out with. I get quite a buzz from that.

I played for Middlesbrough’s youth team. At the age of 16, I went into a shed at the training ground and was told that they weren’t signing me on, so that was the end of that dream. Football was my life. I played football when I got to school, football every break and football as soon as I got home.

My first job was at Alfreton Town and the chairman backed the club. He wanted to win so it made the job easier. I then went to Halifax, where I turned up and there was no balls, no training ground, no players. I had the other side of it.

Me going out 25 minutes early onto the training ground to practise wasn’t me being teacher’s pet. That is what I have done throughout my career.

I will work hard on the training ground and hopefully do what I can to the best of my ability. The rest will take care of itself.

I really loved when I started doing ’70s Show,’ though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom.