Ben Hogan Quotes

It never surprises me how good Shaun is. Even the coaches are surprised by the things he does and I can understand why. He can strike the ball so hard, yet his legs are only about 12 inches long. But I've been watching him do things like that ever since we were kids. I know what he's capable of.

I had such a tie with my eyes and my hands. I could look at a telephone pole 40 yards away, take out a 7-iron, and hit it 10 times in a row. I had something special. And somehow, I really understood the game, all without having a lot of guidance.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

My goal is not to create a better baseball player but to create a superhuman that just happens to play baseball.

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.

Bowling was my natural skill. I didn't know how I was doing it, but I was spinning it miles and bamboozling people.

If I had grown earlier, maybe I would have stuck with football. Maybe. But I was just too small. I was quick, I could outrun people, but if anyone ever got a hand on me, I was done.

There's some guys - Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods - that were blessed with the ability just to be... great.

I've shouted this from the rooftops, and I'll say it again: There's not another man on this Earth who is my size who can do what I do.

Sancho is a player who has everything. He has fantastic speed, great technique, a good eye for his colleagues, and that key pass. Everything he does, he pulls off at high speed at the right moment. For me, he is a perfect player. The ability he has is instinctive, natural. You cannot teach that brilliance.

Isco is a genius. He is a natural and a huge talent.

In what transcends this world, the best is Messi because he is incredible: he does things that nobody can do.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.

My dad being a player. I was never that quick as a kid, so I had to get quicker. I trained hard. I was never that player who could roll out and relax, like Michael [ Owen] or Stevie [ Gerrard], who were natural.

If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively.

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.

I can pick up any sport pretty quickly - believe me, I know how to throw a football.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.