Al McGuire Quotes

In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.

If you are good enough, you should play.

Ultimately, it's your talent that counts.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

If I have the choice between experience and talent, I'm taking talent every time.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

If you're good at it, you can win.

Merit should count more than academic background.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

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

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

Yes, I think I have talent.

If you're going to put me in the booth, make sure it's because I'm good enough to be there.

Kevin Dunn is great at what he does.

When you have the best player, you can do a lot of things. The best player can usually back it up, too.

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

All I have is natural ability.

Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

Look for competence not claims.