Quotes & Sayings About Working Hard In The Off Season

The real preparation for races is done in the off-season. I put in the hard work during the summer and fall, and I'm always working on technique so that when the actual races come around I'm ready to go. — Shani Davis

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. — Al Kaline

I too was pinched off from a piece of clay,
I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked
by things too wonderful for me — Bryana Johnson

It's very hard to get people, because it's just one of those things. I mean, everybody is working. And then during the off- season, it's easy, but we don't have the people during the off-season, because the club closes during off-season, so lot of people don't want a part-time job. — Donald Trump

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga. — Judah Friedlander

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed. — Terence McKenna

Every manager would like to see a match decided in 90 minutes. Because I don't think there's any way you can prepare for penalty kicks. — Joachim Low

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~ — Susan Wiggs

If I thought there was even a single shred of a chance you'd still be alive, then I would have destroyed the entire world to find you. You're my brother. I love you. Please understand that none of what happened was within either of our power to change. — L. H. Cosway

The part of the Lake District that Beatrix Potter chose as her own was not only physically beautiful, it was a place in which she felt emotionally rooted as a descendant of hard-working north-country folk. The predictable routines of farm life appealed to her. There was a realism in the countryside that nurtured a deep connection. The scale of the villages was manageable. Yet the vast desolateness of the surrounding fells was awe-inspiring. It was mysterious, but easily imbued with fantasy and tamed by imagination. The sheltered lakes and fertile valleys satisfied her love of the pastoral. The hill farms and the sheep on the high fells demanded accountability. There was a longing in Beatrix Potter for association with permanence: to find a place where time moved slowly, where places remained much as she remembered them from season to season and from year to year. — Linda Lear

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined.

-- Making Magic, p. 23 — Randall Styers

I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent. — Tom Daley