Rare Ability Quotes

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.

It's just the way I'm set up, being that once-in-a-generation, once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-an-era type of star.

Pau has a game that's impossible to imitate. He's so finesse and so skilled, it's impossible to imitate. Honestly, I'm a big fan of the game. I've never seen a player his size who has so many moves, so many counters and it's impossible. His length, his size, his skills - I mean, you can't teach that.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

Messi the best player in the world by far. I don't think we'll ever see a player like him again.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

I discovered later in life that there's not that many men with a counter-tenor vocal ability.

I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.

Jack is a special performer, the kind that comes along once in a generation.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

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

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

Hundreds of players have physical and technical talents but very few make it.

He's probably the hardest-working guy I've been around who has great ability. Overachievers work hard because they have to. Peyton has rare talent, but chooses to push himself like he doesn't.

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft, but there's very few.

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.