Bryce Harper Quotes

I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

I've always had an aptitude for wrestling. I can't explain it - it's like a gift. To this day, I don't always know how or why I do certain things.

Listen, you can't just come in to boxing and be a world champion. You've got to be born with it.

It's second nature. You just get out there and play basketball.

The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.

I just was fortunate enough to be talented at what I was watching my brother do. It's great that it worked out that way; I might have been wasting a lot of time saying that's what I want to be, but when I got behind the wheel I had the ability.

My Dad has given me a lot of advice, but this advice comes especially from the attitude point of view. He's never told me how to drive a car, how to do a corner, nothing like that. He believe this comes from the talent. You are born with it or you are not born with it.

Ultimately, it's down to the individual. Some people are born to perform. Some people need to work hard to control themselves.

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

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.

When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.

Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.

Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.