„I can't decide if it's a choice
Getting swept away.
I hear the sound of my own voice
Asking you to stay.
And all we are is skin and bone trained to get along,
Forever going with the flow but you friction.“

„You know, when the season is over a lot of guys go home and eat peanuts and drink beer and they show up in spring training with a big belly. I will go home and start working on my body right away. My right shoulder is not the way it is supposed to be. I'm not going to wait until spring training and hope it is all right. I will work on it when I get home.“

—  Roberto Clemente Puerto Rican baseball player 1934 - 1972

Speaking during the 1971 World Series, as quoted in The Chicago Tribune by Bob Markus, reprinted in I'll Play These: From Ecstacy to Angst, A Sports Writer’s Journey https://books.google.com/books?id=sdzKAmeIoE8C&pg=PA219 (2011), p. 219
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>

„I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.“

—  Sam Harris American author, philosopher and neuroscientist 1967

Sam Harris, Real Time with Bill Maher (February 1, 2013)
2010s

„Now come and join the living, its not so far from you
And its getting nearer, soon it will all be true
Oh peace train sounding louder“

—  Cat Stevens British singer-songwriter 1948

Peace Train
Song lyrics, Teaser and the Firecat (1971)

„"We didn't bomb the train tunnel, you know. Some of them will probably get out."
"And then we'll shoot them when they show their faces?" I ask.
"Only if we have to," he answers.“

—  Suzanne Collins American television writer and novelist 1962

Boggs and Katniss (pp. 209-210)
The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

„Why would I want to train at that bum gym? I train with my own people, I have since day one. That man needs to get his facts straight before I roll in there and buy that gym.“

—  Conor McGregor Irish mixed martial artist and boxer 1988

"UFC 197 press conference" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75xAdA3uVeY (January 2016), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
2010s, 2016

„If you train the part of the body you get that part trained“

—  Hira Ratan Manek 1937

The lecture in Ashland, Oregon (8th of July 2005)

„You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.“

—  Ingrid Bergman Film actress from Sweden 1915 - 1982

„If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.“

—  Alyson Nöel, kniha Blue Moon

Zdroj: Blue Moon

„In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!“

—  Jean-Luc Godard French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic 1930

from The Christian Science Monitor - August 3, 1994. David Sterritt

„When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.“

—  Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983

„You're damn right I'm in it to make money. This is prizefighting, I'm in it to get rich; fast. And then I'm in it to get out… I'm in the business of securing my own future, my family's future, and that's it. That's what I'm in it for. The fight game doesn't last long, competitive fighting doesn't last long. Learning martial arts, and training, is for life because that's medication to me so I will do that forever. But, as far as the fight game, I'm in it to get all the money, all the belts, and then I'm gone.“

—  Conor McGregor Irish mixed martial artist and boxer 1988

Setanta Sports interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZQw3Dh0K0 (September 2014)
2010s, 2014

„I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.“

—  Diana Wynne Jones, kniha Fire and Hemlock

Zdroj: Fire and Hemlock

„When I became vegan I stopped training for myself and started training with a purpose greater than my own. Veganism for me is about mindfulness. I do this to liberate animals. … Before I went vegan I had tendonitis, and I would get joint aches and ligament strains, and my knees would be sore. All that went away as soon as I switched to a wholefood plant-based diet. It’s anti-inflammatory, and your digestive system gets a break. … I didn’t understand what it meant to be an athlete. I was big, muscularly, but I was swollen; it wasn’t ‘healthy big’. Now I’m leaner, sharper, quicker, and my mind’s sharper too.“

—  Tim Shieff American freerunner 1988

"An interview with vegan parkour wonder Tim Shieff" https://www.vegansociety.com/whats-new/blog/interview-vegan-parkour-wonder-tim-shieff, interview with The Vegan Society (11 March 2016).

„I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.“

—  Jerome David Salinger, kniha Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)

„In spite of all the training you get and precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decided whether or not you get killed. It doesn't make any difference who you are, how tough you are, how nice a guy you might be, or how much you may know, if you happen to be at a certain spot at a certain time, you get it.“

—  James Jones American author 1921 - 1977

Letter to his brother Jeff from Guadalcanal (28 January 1943); p. 27
To Reach Eternity (1989)
Kontext: In spite of all the training you get and precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decided whether or not you get killed. It doesn't make any difference who you are, how tough you are, how nice a guy you might be, or how much you may know, if you happen to be at a certain spot at a certain time, you get it. I've seen guys out of one hole to a better one and get it the next minute, whereas if they'd stayed still they wouldn't have been touched. I've seen guys decide to stay in a hole instead of moving and get it. I've seen guys move and watch the hole they were in get blown up a minute later. And I've seen guys stay and watch the place to which they had intended to move get blown up. It's all luck.

„I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.“

—  Haruki Murakami, kniha A Wild Sheep Chase

Zdroj: A Wild Sheep Chase

„And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice.“

—  Sarah Dessen, kniha Dreamland

Dreamland (2000)

„I'd stop a train just to watch you get off,
Don't leave me alone with my whiskey thoughts.“

—  Greta Gaines

"Whiskey Thoughts", on Whiskey Thoughts (2008) http://www.allmusic.com/album/whiskey-thoughts-mw0000787033 · Video at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEA4mjwRik&spfreload=10

„MY husband and I were on a train journey and at a wayside station I asked him to get me a cup of tea. When he returned, just as the train was steaming out, I saw him standing at the door of the compartment, teacup in one hand, trying busily to get rid of his w:Flip-flops}chappal. `What are you doing?“

—  K. R. Narayanan 9th Vice President and the 10th President of India 1920 - 2005

I asked. "Oh, nothing. I accidentally dropped one of the pair at the platform... I can't get it back... What is the use of my keeping one when the man who finds the first will need both?
His wife Usha Narayanan
A remarkable life-story