Training Effectiveness Quotes

It's hard to find trainers to train, coaches to coach. Just because someone was great in the business doesn't mean they can teach someone else how to be great in the business; and just because someone wasn't great in the business, doesn't mean they can't teach somebody. I used to be a firm believer in the other.

You give me someone with the right personality, and I'll give you a bar manager in three weeks. You give me someone who has been a lousy bar manager for 30 years, and in three weeks, you'll still have a lousy bar manager.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Some of my fights in PRIDE, I felt tired. I would train on the punching bag and feel great but then get tired in my fights.

When someone gets angry during a training session but then does their job, there's no problem; it's fine.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.

The training kicked in and we quickly went through our emergency procedures, I took manual control and I got the spacecraft under control and stopped about 50 meters from the space station. So, the net effect of the failure was that we were actually turning and speeding up towards the space station when we should have been slowing down, so it was quite a dangerous situation. But we got manual control, performed the first manual docking to the station at night. The training pays off. It was just automatic. We had our books out already, we went right to the right procedures and executed them.

You can only improve so much in training.

I can make a beginner, anyone with no dance experience, look amazing if we put in the hours.

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.

I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things.

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

If I can go compete with the young guys during training in the offseason, I should be fine during football.

Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.

There is nothing like playing in the actual games, compared to simulating it, working out, playing some five-on-five. It's not the same.

It was like a musician playing notes. Everything we trained worked.

I'm sure strength-and-power people have been using kettlebells for years, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will work in a general training program.

You can train so hard and eat bad stuff and you're training for no reason.