Shannon Sharpe Quotes

I'm a reasonably articulate individual.

One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

You might be thinking that some people are just naturally good at speaking up, and others just aren't - game over. Not true. Speaking up is a skill that you have to learn like any other, whether it's speaking Spanish or doing calculus or changing a tire.

I understand how to deliver a message, that's my skill.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

I am not eloquent.

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

I often begin a thought with spirit and finish it with nonsense. The chain of my argument often escapes me, and when lost can seldom be retrieved. These faults are so overpowering that I should sink into perpetual silence were it not that sometimes in ardor of debate, when my feelings are wound up to a high tone, elocution pours itself along with unusual rapidity, and I have passages which would not shame a good speaker; this is the only thing that makes me tolerable to others or to myself.

I [Moses] am not a man of words.

This trial has developed in the most remarkable manner, the insane love of speaking among public men. We are wading knee deep in words, words, words ….

William Jennings Bryan is a much better orator than I am. I have to think.

We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say.

It lies deep in our habits, confirmed by all manner of educational and other arrangements for several centuries back, to consider human talent as best of all evincing itself by the faculty of eloquent speech.

I'm a talker.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

It may sound like showing off, but I am good in communications and in creating harmony.

I'm not very articulate. I don't have that skill.

I consider myself a good communicator and a good salesman.