Quotes About Talent

From what I've seen of (Larry) Bird, he's not just one bird. He's a whole flock!

It's given many great performers their start, but more importantly, it's killed thousands of barely talented people and it's put them to death, and they're now doing the jobs they're built for.

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

I lived near him during my time with the Brewers and I would stop by his house sometimes to drop something off, and he'd be cutting his grass, cleaning the pool, or playing with his kids. He was just a normal Wisconsin guy, who happened to be one of the best baseball players on the planet.

But Brian has become a great, great, great friend. He's super talented obviously, which is evident to anybody who watches him do NCAA Tournament games or NFL games.

They'd never seen anything like it." Uecker recalls the incident, which was captured in photos. "I was better with the tuba than I was with a glove," he said. The jokes about his career flow easily, but Uecker is proud of his time as a player and the respect that he has earned from players of his era and today.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

It isn't the high price of stars that is expensive; it's the high price of mediocrity.

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.

The thing about me and school was that as much as I felt that I didn't belong, as long as I was on a stage or dancing, that's where I excelled the most, felt worthy.

I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy.

If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You're drafting a guy because you think he's worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you're also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you're going to say, 'This guy's a backup,' - really? That doesn't make any sense to me.

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

Bill Murray, we've got to get people worthy to be on the screen with him, as opposed to just a bunch of random... with no disrespect... but a bunch of random local actors.

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

I understand that there are a few roles out there and tons of actors. Just because you don't get the big break doesn't mean you're not worthy or that what you have to offer isn't valid.

There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.

What I consider a challenge is to prove that I am worthy as Journey's new vocalist.

In my career I always tried to improve to become one of the great players, because I felt I had received a gift from God and I had to make good use of it, to become worthy of having received this talent.