Pele Quotes

Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.

The speed you have, you can't practice it. You have to be fast from your birth on. There are other things you can practice, like flexibility or the little steps needed to stand good to the ball, but to be fast is a gift you get.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

I don't have the physical talent those guys have. My hard work has made me very good.

For me, speed isn't anything I ever practiced. It's all in the genes. Plus, my mom gave me a lot of vitamins when I was small.

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.

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

If you talk about natural ability, I think Apollo's probably the most naturally gifted athlete of the new era.

Actors are not made, they are born.

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

I will say from the outset, I think if you're great, you're great from the very beginning. And because I do think it is innate and I do think it is a gift you just have, and I don't think you can - you can hone the skills of a director, but sadly, I do think that you are born a great director. I think it's just in you and it's something that is deep in you. But, I find it can be difficult working with first-time directors, but it's also moving.

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.

I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.