Bob Uecker Quotes

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.

A quality player is a quality player.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

Talent is very hot.

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

We're playing at our level of ability.

I think it now comes down to whether you have the skills or not.

Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

That guy is really good.

Directors don't call you for your beauty but for your talent.

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

It's just cool to witness talent.

When you have to make a choice between capacity and capability, I would go with capability.

I bring a lot of playmaking ability.

I could have started playing professional at 16, 17 quite easily. For my position, I was far better than a lot of people around me. All the people in front of me had was experience but, talent-wise, I easily could get in.

If you play well and consistently, it opens up a lot of opportunities.

Kevin Dunn is great at what he does.

A lot of people can score. What else can you do?

I feel like, as long as you truly are a good player, then you can't go out and have a bad season.

Once you play, you've got to show the manager what you can do.