Quotes About Talent

Miloslav Mecir - best anticipation of any player in our generation for sure. The most flexible... and then crazy good hands. He is the best player in the world to not have won a slam, for sure. No question in my mind. He should have won three or four.

When I was a kid, my favorite event was the Slam Dunk Contest.

I never wanted to be a slap hitter. It would hurt my pride if someone called me one. I wanted to be a guy who could do everything.

I never played against my own age, and I was one of the best players. That's when I would get really nervous, maybe not sleep the night before a game.

Govinda can act in his sleep. He is just amazing.

If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.

I like Dave Davies from the Kinks, before he could play slick.

There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.

I've been a Robert Randolph fan forever, since 2001. I just thought he was so cool; you don't see a black kid playing the slide the way he plays. No one plays like Robert.

My 'Slide Some Oil' ain't gon' be Nipsey Russell's 'Slide Some Oil.' Elijah Kelley's 'You Can't Win' ain't gon' be Michael Jackson's 'You Can't Win.'

I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.

One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.

Over the years, I've had a slight ebbing and flowing of confidence in my non-comedic role abilities.

I never had a slight feeling of intimidation. I'm not even trying to compete with Mr. Perry.

Everybody in Georgia is musical, but I was slightly obsessed.

I like interesting casting, and casting people who you think might be slightly different in parts.

I always hoped I'd end up playing a lot cooler roles. I do end up playing quite a lot of idiot savants, and I've actually started to revel in that slightly.

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

Now a 'funnyman' can get a laugh before opening his mouth - looking funny. Lou Costello was one of your great funnymen. Harry Langdon, Larry Semon; they were all funnymen - they looked funny. W.C. Fields was never a comedian. Slim Summerville was a comedian, yet looked funny. Now if you have both attributes, you are in good shape.

Be it television or film, or theatre, I can modify myself, develop any character and slip into any role.

All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.

You don't cancel out Messi, no, you can slow his actions, but you cannot neutralise his actions.

I am equally capable of doing club songs, slow rock songs and any other kind as well.

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.