Quotes About Talent

With the ball I can run 37kmh but I've never been timed without it because my job is to play football. I'm not an athlete.

I always want to show them I can play football.

If you can play football, you can play football. Measurables at the combine don't change that.

You don't have to be a strapping lad to play football.

I have always attributed my abilities to play football and, really, all other skills and attributes, to God.

I don't think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not many.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

I was born to play football. I may have been taught to play but everybody is born for something and I was born to play football.

My two younger brothers play football as well and they are obviously pretty talented and my two older brothers like to sing and I obviously can't do that.

God has blessed me with the ability to play football.

I drove my Mum crazy, because I wouldn't go out and play football or join the Boy Scouts, I'd just sit at home and play the guitar.

I admire Romario a lot, he was my idol together with Ronaldo, but I do not have anything to prove to anyone. What I have to do is play football.

I would have liked to behave badly, to play football. I loved sport. But all my family were working for me to succeed.

I've always known I could play football. I went to Arsenal and West Ham as a kid, but I took a year out because I wanted to play with my mates and get that competitiveness back. I got that fighting spirit and I never want to lose that.

This is what I feel like I was born to do is play football, and I love it.

I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.

They say some people are born with the ability to play golf. I wasn't.

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.

I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.

I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.