Vin Scully Quotes

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

I was born with the gift.

If you talk about natural ability, I think Apollo's probably the most naturally gifted athlete of the new era.

The speed you have, you can't practice it. You have to be fast from your birth on. There are other things you can practice, like flexibility or the little steps needed to stand good to the ball, but to be fast is a gift you get.

Actors are not made, they are born.

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.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

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

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

I don't think talent or the gift ever goes away.

I've always had an aptitude for wrestling. I can't explain it - it's like a gift. To this day, I don't always know how or why I do certain things.

Listen, you can't just come in to boxing and be a world champion. You've got to be born with it.

There are some guys that can roll out of bed and they can throw 96 from the very first outing. I've just never been one of those guys.