Per Mertesacker Quotes

I like talent. I respect talent. I teach talent.

I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.

Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.

I've always had the speed, but the experience comes along naturally.

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

When I see a young person on a reality show, I don't think, "Oh my God. They could be better." I think, "Oh my God. They are really good for 17. They're going to learn so much!" If they're this good at 17, imagine what they're going to be like at 20.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don't let people have that opportunity to fail, they don't get to learn and grow and try things.

I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.

My craft's been rising. I'm a student of the game and I'm still growing.

Conte is correct - talent needs to be nurtured on a daily basis with hard work.

When one goes to school, you don't have any idea of what you're going to learn. But as each day passes, you learn things. I believe sport is the same way. Some guys are born with a talent. But you have to nurture that talent and continue to learn.

I still want to improve in every way. I'm a young player. I want to work, and that's my aim: to improve in every single aspect of my play.

You are born with the talent; then you work with it. You develop the right mentality.

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

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.

When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.

There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.