Actually, I thought he told people something they really don't want to hear: your superb talents don't mean a thing unless you straighten up and put in your 10k hours. It's a matter of perspective ;)
People on both sides of the talent vs hard-work debate are posting here using his books and lectures as support.
Personally, I'm in the "work matters more than talent" camp. so of course, that's what I remember from his work :-)
[edit: clarification]
It kind of makes sense if you think about it, since achievement typically has a log-normal distribution with a long right-hand tail, which implies that it's based on multiple normally distributed underlying factors.
Take away any one of the factors, and you rapidly approach more "normal" levels of achievement.