If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook. Lee Trevino
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.Karl Heinrich Marx
Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard. Jim Thome
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Frederick Douglass
Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.Jim Brown
My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell. Kelly Slater
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston churchill
My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother. Doris Lessing
My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform. Jason Babin
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air. Earl Wilson
Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear. Michael Johnson
Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success. Mark Spitz
People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.Jim Brown