“All I had was natural ability.” — Branch Rickey Quote

All I had was natural ability.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

Never surrender opportunity for security.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

I look at a guy like The Rock - how he started with his natural ability in sports but gravitated into Hollywood - as a model for what's possible.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.

I think women have the natural ability to do multi-tasking.

There's people here that just have that natural power and natural ability, so I need to step up my defense, step up my game.