Quote Originally Posted by finchster View Post
High end athletes tend to be natural athletes; they can play any sport and are capable.However, they might have all the god given natural abilities to be successful but lack the knowledge, experience and high level sport IQ to take the new sport to the highest level. I don’t doubt Bolt could be a footballer in some professional sense, but Premier league? Forget it.
I think he would lack more than just sport IQ. Some raw skills come naturally, but they need to be continually improved to compete at the highest level (or even at a second-tier level). There's a reason why baseball pitchers tend to be the worst hitters in the major leagues.