Quotes About Talent

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

There are very few great poets in the world.

You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of poets.

If someone wants to call me a Harlem Globetrotter, well, great, go ahead. I was very good at basketball. I was a really good point guard. I was the best passer.

Most people don't know I like to block shots. I'm going to be a big point guard out there. So just come in and prove myself. Just show why I belong on this stage.

A point guard can carry a team - if he has all the right stuff.

I know I can play point guard.

Plenty of times LeBron is mistaken as a point guard, which is awesome.

I wouldn't call myself a real point guard.

My 10th grade year I was 6-foot-4 and I grew to like 6-foot-7, but I still had my guard skills. I was playing point guard, I was a big guard. People started calling me 'Penny Hardaway' - comparing me to him because I was a big guard.

I can't name a backup point guard better than me in the NBA.

I think I'm a shooting guard and a point guard, to be honest with you.

There's always a good point guard in this league.

I know what I can do and I know I can pass the ball. I know I can be a true point guard and I know I can score also.

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.

When I had decided to become an actor, I did a lot of soul-searching to figure out how I could be different. What could I bring to the table that others or my father couldn't have? That's when I worked on my strong points, namely action and dancing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Everyone wanted to play like Eric Clapton in the early to mid-'60s.

The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.

I played clarinet for many years.

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.