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"When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions."
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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"You will only succeed in the field where your gift is."
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"Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him."
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"A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people."
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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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"When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions."
Talent
"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players."
Skill
"Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me."
Home
"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home."
Home
"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention."
Attention
"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."
Basketball
"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa."
People
"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?"
Man
"I always keep a ball in the car. You never know."
Car
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