Quotes About Skill

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

I look at Weili Zhang and see myself. She has heavy hands and if we exchange, I want to be better than her. When she fires, I want to be the sniper and her with a small pistol.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.

We've learned that musical ability is actually not one ability but a set of abilities, a dozen or more. Through brain damage, you can lose one component and not necessarily lose the others. You can lose rhythm and retain pitch, for example, that kind of thing.

I can only show these people what I'm capable of when God allows me to be on the pitch.

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

There's only a handful of chicks in the world who can climb big walls on my level.

Peter Parker can't dance. He can flip and climb up walls and do backflips, but he definitely can't dance.

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

If you are seeking fame without the requisite talent, you might wander.

Everything has technique to it. So if there's something you wanna try out, I think it's always good to get a trainer or listen to people who know what they're doing.

I just wanna show people I'm a hooper.

I don't wanna play like that anymore: Widdle, widdle, widdle, up and down the neck as fast as possible.

I feel like I've gotten myself comfortable making beats in front of people, so like, if I'm in a big room of people, I'm not like, nervous. I wanna be able to make beats on the spot.

I wanna be the greatest to ever play my position. One of the best to ever play the game. Hopefully, be a Hall of Famer.

I wanna be the Steph Curry of country music.

I want to make things of quality. I'm a big believer in handmade, tactile, crafted pieces. I want to keep that tradition alive.

I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.