SonomaProducts.com wrote:
Yeah, in return to a comment about how "talented" his son (John) was,
coach Elway angrly responded that it wasn't talent, it was the
insistance of always running one more lap when the rest of the team
hit the showers and more hard work that anyone else.
....
That works _up_to_a_point. I'd never made a NBA player no matter how
much I worked on my jump shot...

There has to be a certain amount of innate ability in any field before
anybody is going to become top-level performer. Better than just
bumbler?--sure, that's something most people can attain w/ enough effort
but w/o the physical tools to start with there is no amount of effort
that will create a world-class athlete or a Pavarotti or Einstein or...

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