KT Tunstall Quotes

I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

Young kids do not see tennis as a 'fun' sport.

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

When I was a kid, I was a striker. Then, I started to be a winger and defender sometimes.

When I was six, I joined FC Schifflange 95, a first-division team in Luxembourg. They knew I had talent, but I knew only hard work gets you anywhere, and I went away from my family at 13 for the first time.

I don't think people understand how good LeBron is.

Neymar is a great player with a lot of class, one of the best in the world.

Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.

Hitting the ball has never been my issue, so I can literally not pick up a racquet for two months and hit the ball, really, really nicely. I mean movement's always an issue.

The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.

Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.

My son's 18, 142 pounds and hits it 40 (yards) by me. Instead of to the pin, he's lasering the distance between me and him.

As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football.