Potential

What is potential without hard work?
It is nothing.
You can have all the talent in the world, but if you dont work hard at it, you will never amount to anything worthwhile.
This applies for everything, studies, earning money, sports.
I wasn't blessed with unnatural speed; I am a sports player with very average speed. If there's anything i'm blessed with in the area of sports, its an unreasonable hang time which gives me, as a fren put it, "the unfair ability to move in the air".
With my average speed, i am forced to get past opponents with guile and trickery, hesitation moves and sudden bursts of acceleration; random changes of speed to fool my opponents. Unless i'm up against a 100kg Centre, i'm never going to leave my mark in the dust just by running.
It is a pity that one with such gifted natural speed chooses to waste it. An extreme pity. He isn't me; there is nothing i can do about it. But what is such potential without hard work?

Yes.
It is nothing.
Any physics student can tell you this; without the right energy conversion, potential energy is nothing more than an imaginary term; it is not visible; it is not real.