Quotes About Skill

There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you.

There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.

Anything a man can do, I can fix.

Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.