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Talent...you're born with some, more for some of us, less for others.
Skill...talent plus training
Ability...talent plus training plus work
Winning...talent plus training plus work plus luck (you can't control the other guy's ability, only your own)
Want to bicker about the words I use?...OK...but the concept remains.
I would add mental focus beyond luck to winning. When you look at elite athletics there was a time when head coaches said, "Let's bring in a strength coach to make our athletes bigger and stronger". Then they started to experience injuries, and the cry was for physios. Then they figured out that with better nutrition and sleep athletes recovered better and could endure more frequent intense workouts so nutritionists and sleep monitoring was employed.
Now we are into the mind. On any give day each athlete in a elite competition has the same or very, very similar bandwidth. What they do mentally on and off of the playing field is the new frontier. For those of us not on the world stage the mind also plays a huge roll in our performance.