"Talent is not enough to win. It's necessary to know how to form a real team, and we didn't manage that this year."

"It's never easy to go through the first couple of weeks like this, but we have the talent here that should be able to turn it around,"

"I think he is a long-term name. He is a very big talent."

"His ability to compete is his best talent, and his talents are good ? they're really good. He's just got a warrior mentality, and he does it every day. He's one of those really, really good players, and it doesn't matter to him whether it's practice or a game."

"Jeanne is an outstanding retail and management talent who has developed successful brands and programs in both traditional and online retail channels,"

"He's got premier talent. We've got to get all our guys clicking, and we're trying to do that. That's the challenge for our football team."

"Tim continues to be a very talented goalkeeper that we think, given time and the right opportunity, is going to continue to improve and be a terrific goalkeeper at the international level. One day he will be the No. 1 goalkeeper for the U.S."

"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."

"If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out."

"I probably have genius. But no talent."

"There is no art without intention."

"Talent is more erotic when it's wasted."

"No one respects a talent that is concealed."

"Concealed talent brings no reputation."

"I love Maya Rudolph. She's very multitalented herself."

"The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best."

"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."

"I think he has the arm talent to do it. He can do it."

"He's such a special player, a once-in-a-lifetime talent."

"Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world"

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world"

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."

"It just makes me go out and work harder to showcase my talent."

"This is about an experienced, savvy, talented team which I believe we have taking advantage of the opportunities out there. But one thing they cannot neglect is just how hard (Chicago) is going to play and the kind of effort they're going to have to make to stay with them."