Quotes About Talent

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

Messi is the greatest, but he has always been surrounded by other great players.

I was surrounded by classical music, art and ballet all these things. But they also had a football field and it was at the conservatoire I decided to be a footballer.

I'm surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!

That's when I'm at my best: when I'm surrounded by good players.

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

Certainly when you're surrounded by top-class players, like Cesc Fabregas, Eden Hazard, all of them, you only can make progress in a situation like that.

I was surrounded by a bunch of friends who made music, and at the time, I thought they were good. They used to tell me I was really bad, but it ended being up the opposite.

I don't believe many teams can do it just with one really, really good player. You have to be surrounded with a good cast.

The fans keep me energized, and being surrounded by such a talented and dynamic 'GameDay' crew is the best medicine for this old coach.

Yeah, I guess for years I wanted to be an artist, and when I was growing up, lots of my family were artists, so I was kind of surrounded by that world. Then acting came along, and I loved it immediately.

At Manchester, and at Dortmund before that, I'm surrounded by great players who make it easy for me to play.

At Carolina, I was surrounded by great players, and we felt like we were one of the more talented teams in the country. My job was to score. In the NBA, it's different.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

I don't think there's a performer in this world who makes better use of their surroundings than I do.

In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others on that particular occasion; it is a form of survival.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.

In spite of not taking big stars, I have survived in the industry.

'American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS's 'Survivor' and other shows that imitate it, the 'American Idol' contestants, of course, sing.

Oh God love Susan Boyle. God love 'er. I've nothing more to say about Susan, except God love 'er and God bless 'er.