Individual Brilliance Quotes

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

Test match cricket is about individual brilliance.

Xherdan Shaqiri is a player who can make the difference because he can decide games on his own.

When Messi gets the chance to go one against one, he is very difficult to stop on his own.

When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

The great thing about T20 is that it only takes one performance. One piece of individual brilliance can win a game and that can change the whole way you approach a tournament.

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

It's impossible to replace him. You will not find another Messi, but you can train a team without having the best in the world.

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.

I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.

There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Sometimes in a team game, the entire spotlight is on one man.

A fully fit Arjen is capable of settling a game by himself.

Gerrard is passionate, and he leads from the front. At times, he has lifted Liverpool to great wins almost single-handedly.

Football has changed. There are no more Zvonimir Bobans or individuals who win games by themselves.

One genius is about all a house will hold.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.