Quotes About Talent

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

I am simply the very best sports entertainer

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray) Guy stands out in punting. It just happens.

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .