It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.
Jim Sensenbrenner

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Eric Hoffer

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
John Hersey

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
Edward Hoagland

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
Joseph Lancaster

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.
Peggy Fleming

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.
Greta Garbo

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
J. G. Holland

No man can discover his own talents.
Brendan Francis

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
Junius

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Katharine Hepburn

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Cotton Mather

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

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine.
Jeremy Irons

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther."
Ludwig van Beethoven

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Luc de Clapiers

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.
John Engler

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Plautus