Quotes About Ability

With confidence, you feel like you can pretty much do anything on the floor.

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

I don't think I would ever have taken on professional acting roles if I hadn't had the ability to fly. I had quite low self-esteem, and it gave me the self-confidence to believe I could do anything that I put my mind to.

At 155, I kind of feel, when I'm fighting out there, I just don't feel like I have the right thinking ability. I kind of feel like my mind is foggy, if that makes sense. I don't really know how to describe it. Maybe it's the weight cut.

I'm no different from other drivers - my talent is in my brain, not in my right foot.

I've got a good engine and a good left foot, so I'll be looking forward to showing that on the pitch.

I wanted to come to a good football team so I could showcase what I could do.

Maybe I was an even better cricketer than a footballer.

Good players can do well everywhere and Soldado is a good footballer.

I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

People say, 'How would you do in the men's game?' I say, Give me a man's frame, and I think I'd do O.K.

My thing is, when Barkley played basketball, he didn't practice, he wasn't a leader, he wasn't this or that, he just had natural talent so he got chosen to the Dream Team, All Star team because he had the talent and he was the franchise player on the team.

I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.

The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.

Some people can only freestyle, some people can only make certain types of songs. I can do it all.

If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.

Fundamentals - everybody has that. I definitely have that.

Some just don't know the fundamentals of the game. And a smart player can contain guys like that.

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say Look! I have no hands! But the people all around me say: What are hands?

the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange…The spice extends life… expands consciousness… gives them the ability to fold space…that is, travel to any part of the universe without moving.

What's your definition of sanity, Skipper?' 'The ability to swim,' said Sparrow. Ramsey felt a cold shock, as though he had been immersed suddenly in freezing water. He had to force himself to continue breathing normally. As though from a great distance, he heard Sparrow's voice: 'That means the sane person has to understand currents, has to know what's required in different waters.' Ramsey

Technology breeds anarchy. It distributes these tools at random. And with them goes the provocation for violence. The ability to make and use savage destroyers falls inevitably into the hands of smaller and smaller groups until at last the group is a single individual." Moneo