#talent

You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#back #better #came #experienced #far

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#also #any #black #both #complex

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had. ↗

— Gail Devers

#any #athlete #became #because #brother

That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#assistance #clubs #get #give #hear

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#call #childish #college #courses #eventually

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#desire #element #even #grows #independent

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool. ↗

— Josh Groban

#his #i #liked #officially #own

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor. ↗

— Alexander Chee

#respect #talent #talented #work #experience

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#i #most #person #talented #world

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#boy #charismatic #fall #i #rock