Quotes About Talent

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

You can never have enough talent.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music ... I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.

Svako je genijalac. Me?utim ako prosu?uješ ribu na osnovu njene sposobnosti da se penje uz drvo ona ?e ceo život provesti u ube?enju da je glupa.

Ognuno è un genio. Ma se si giudica un pesce dalla sua abilità di arrampicarsi sugli alberi lui passerà tutta la sua vita a credersi stupido.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

Non ho alcun talento particolare, sono solo appassionatamente curioso.

Eu não tenho nenhum talento especial. Apenas sou apaixonadamente curioso

This is what I have to say about Bach's life's work: listen, play, love, revere – and keep your trap shut.