Christian Coleman Quotes

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.

There are plenty of players who have a lot of talent. It's all about getting the best out of yourself and you'll have to work very hard to achieve that.

Talent alone is never enough.

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

I don't think anything comes naturally; you just have to work very hard.

You can be talented, but having great talent isn't enough. You have to work every day or someone will pass you up.

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.

Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

If you want to achieve what you dream of achieving, whatever it may be, you're going to have to earn it.