Rich Froning Jr. Quotes

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.

I was not real good at anything. I was just OK at everything.

My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.

I wouldn't say that I'm a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, but I wouldn't say that I'm brilliant at any.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.

I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.

Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.

There's that saying: 'God gave you talent, and if you don't use it He'll take it away from you.' And I always said, 'I don't want God to come down and take my talents away.' So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I've always got something to fall back on.

I went to a small school, so I had to be a jack of all trades and master a few.

There is nothing worse than being mediocre at a whole bunch of different things.

The way I've approached my career, I've always tried to be pretty good at everything. I think if you ask players about my game, they would say I'm pretty good at everything, but I don't think they'd say I'm the best at certain things. Maybe that's my strength, not having a serious weakness or many weaknesses. I just try and be solid.

I can play both ends of the floor.

I was a decent student but not a great student.

You have tons of talents everywhere you go, so you can't be stuck to only one promotion.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Most people can do nothing at all well

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Most people are not particularly good at anything.

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.