But talent has a broad definition.

Most of the time, it’s not about having a gift. It’s about having grit. In tennis, like in life, discipline is also a talent. And so is patience.

Trusting yourself is a talent. Embracing the process—loving the process—is a talent. Managing your life, managing yourself.

Though that night as a rookie in Cleveland he said that he didn’t know how he would get to the top, he had settled on an answer he had known all along. He was going to grind his way there—implacably, relentlessly grind away at the challenges of the game, night after night, game after game, until he found a dominance born of his ability to outwork

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