Bob Gibson Quotes

I was born with the gift.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

You can't make a star - they just have it.

If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.

Actors are not made, they are born.

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

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

My mother says healers are born, not made.

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.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

Talent is a gift from God. That is something that you are born with. To be able to be born with singing talent is just a gift. You can learn how to sing better, but you cannot learn to sing with certain quality. It is just something you are born with.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.