Andrea Pirlo Quotes

I really like Ronaldinho. He is the player I have watched the most and tried to copy the most, but I am still learning.

I was a natural talent, a raw talent. Then I came to Manchester City, and I learned philosophies.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

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.

Pogba has never stopped improving. He has everything to become a great player. If he keeps his head on his shoulders, he can make history.

I can learn a lot from Messi. Watching how he does things will help me a lot in future.

The Liga is a tough league, but I'm inspired by players like Neymar and Messi. You have to work very hard to reproduce what they do, especially Neymar.

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

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

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.

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.

Some guys get by on natural athletic ability. And then when they reach a certain point, they got to put in the time before and after practice and in the off-season.

We can't all be Lionel Messi, even if we want to.

For young people who are football players, Ronaldo should be the best in the world. He is the best example to look at because he trains to the fullest and has talent.