Quotes About Skill

Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

Anyone can be a DJ but it's understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.

Over the years, golf has evolved from a leisurely game of stick and ball into a competitive sport for highly skilled athletes. Players not only spend countless hours fine-tuning technique on the course, but also improving strength, stability, and endurance in the gym.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.

'Big Time Rush' was a great show, and I had some great experiences. It allowed me to become more of a comedic actress, which is also a great skill to have. But there wasn't a whole lot of tragedy in there. Not quite as dark as 'Red Band Society.' So I've been very lucky to have been able to grow in that sense, just through moving to FOX.

As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

If you have big talent and don't train it's all over.

I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.

In theater, the show must go on, so you train yourself to be able to nail it every single time because that's what the audience deserves, and that's the magic of live theater.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

Friends sometimes ask me, 'When you get the ball what are you thinking?' But you do not have time to think. You have to do it. It's not instinct; that's not the right word, but it's how you feel in this moment. You sense it. It's trained, but it's trained inside you. It makes you faster in the moment.

Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

I am a trained singer in Hindustani and classical music.

I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained every season with the bow and arrow.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.