Sentence examples for squandered talent from inspiring English sources

Regret would come later, most famously through addiction and squandered talent for Gooden and Strawberry.

Address these problems and we will have much less "squandered talent".

It is from this work especially that his poignant regret for his wasted youth and squandered talent is known.

Their back catalogue is minimal, their career a depressing tale of squandered talent, dodgy contracts, amateurish management, chemical excess.

His father said that Mullen's success was proof that he had squandered talent he might better have applied to golf or tennis.

The scene resembled a politician offering a mea culpa at a news conference, except this was a basketball coach acknowledging he had squandered talent.

We affect to adore dilettantes with their (apparently) squandered talents: the Peter Cooks and the George Bests, and yet in claiming to admire them, we are suppressing a secret twinge at the sad and wasteful side of their lives, while appreciating the warning lesson.

Poverty is human deprivation, poor nutrition, poor health, appalling housing, squandered talents, and broken dreams.

This arrangement suited Simon fine — he bitterly accepted a buyout offer from the paper in 1995, feeling that it was squandering talent under new management.

In recent years Senegal have been one of the most exasperating offenders in terms of squandering talent, but now, with Ba's help, they could illustrate the opposite: a country that has successfully reorganised to maximise its abundant ability.

Theresa May's government seemed set on a Sports Direct-type future of insecure and low-paid jobs, he suggested, calling it "a mean-spirited vision that will squander talents and skills".