Quotes About Talent

If you are good at something, and especially, if people who matter tell you that you are good enough, you must follow that sport.

In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

I just loved going fast. I still enjoy go-karting. I was also good at rugby, and my dad wanted me to be a sportsman, but I never thought I could do sports professionally.

I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they're not willing to do the work. Relying on talent is not enough.

You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.

People bring it up to me: 'Well, you're only in your spot because you can talk well.' Okay, first off, you could be right. But second, what - am I supposed to apologize for this? No.

I've just always had a soft spot for character actors.

I know I am coming to a big club with a very good goalkeeper. City already have a great goalkeeper in Joe Hart, but I will try and compete for the No. 1 spot.

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.

To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn't matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear.

It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.

I've got a good set of eyeballs on me, so I can spot talent.

Much of the responsibility to get more women elected is down to political parties. I am proud that a third of Lib Dem MPs are women, and I know we must work harder still to spot and nurture talented women at all levels in our party.

Keerthy Suresh knows how to improvise and reworks her expression on the spot.

You've got to find a sweet spot where you skill meets your passion, meets your job.

I've got a very soft spot for Mohammad Amir. As a person and as a cricketer, I admire him greatly.

If people can spot talent rather than the talent having to come to us, then I think you might find that the quality of stuff goes up.