31.   He discovered that fateful night in Tokyo that natural talent could only carry him so far.

32.   Guerrero never adjusted to the pace of major-league baseball as a rookie last season, but his prodigious natural talent evidently made the Dodgers reluctant to let him go.

33.   He had a lot of natural talent, but he was lazy.

34.   Hard work and a long apprenticeship have nurtured her natural talent and have allowed her to keep her new success in perspective.

35.   He discovered he had a natural talent for cutting and foiling.

36.   He had natural talent, good looks and an ease with people, but some aspects of his manner were consciously, if not painstakingly, cultivated.

37.   He praised her natural talent and innate vision and encouraged her to try this or that method or medium.

38.   He thought he could keep doing it and doing it on natural talent alone.

39.   He was a natural talent.

40.   His natural talent and surprising toughness have made it happen.