Paul Pierce Quotes

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

I'm still young; I've had a couple things under my belt. I don't even think I've begun where I'm gonna be eventually. I really feel very much in the beginning of my journey. I feel very new.

When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.

There are a lot of young teams that all they are is young. That doesn't mean they have a chance to be good.

Potential is like a summer crop. If it don't rain, it don't grow.

Twenty-seven is a great age to play. There is so much ahead of you.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called ''Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

Early youth is a baffling time.

I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

The youth is the hope of our future.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

You never start out being a star.