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Amateurs hope. Professional work. -- Garson Kanin
Professional competitions are overrated. -- Oksana Baiul
Professional Southerners sicken me. -- Barry Hannah
Professional sports is a business. -- Lynn Swann
Professional golfer... what a life. -- Billy Bush
Professional sports are something they can't control. -- Troy Vincent
Professional trust is a process, not a state. -- Andy Hargreaves
Professional soldiers are people who die for a living. -- George Carlin
Professional men run the business started by the courageous men. -- Amit Kalantri
The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics. -- Tom Clancy
Professional football is a job and it's in the entertainment business. -- John Riggins
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. -- Ogden Nash
Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen. -- Michael Wilbon
[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday. -- Herbert Hoover
Professional land surveyors take on a lot of responsibility, and should be compensated appropriately. -- Mark Mason
Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population. -- Gabriel Luna
I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made. -- Shane Black
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. -- Shelley Berman
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best. -- Jack Nicklaus
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times. -- Mort Sahl
Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum. -- Frank Skinner
Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you. -- David Maister
Professional wrestling is in my blood. I may have second guessed it in the past, but I know it now. -- Brock Lesnar
Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job. -- Robert J. Garagiola
The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional. -- Richard Burton
I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. -- Afrojack
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional. -- Jahangir Khan
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. -- Brit Hume
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. -- Red Adair
Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry. -- Sloane Crosley
Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy. -- Chris Rock
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. -- Casey Stengel
We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. -- Raymond Chandler
I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire. -- Gary Paulsen
I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? -- Stephen Colbert
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones. -- Steven Pressfield
That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time. -- Dwayne Johnson
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? -- Robert Fripp
I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion. -- Joe Namath
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor. -- Herschel Walker
I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for. -- Emmitt Smith
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You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique. -- Jacques Pepin
Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job. -- Gerald Chertavian
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. -- Penelope Cruz
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football. -- Gareth Bale
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. -- Lionel Messi
Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way. -- Skylar Grey
I'm very professional. -- Matthew Lewis
Well, I'm a professional. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I'm not that professional. -- Andy Richter
I'm a professional food eater. -- Henry Rollins
I am nothing that isn't professional. -- Johnny Knoxville
America is incredibly professional and corporate. -- Noel Gallagher
Every professional was once an amateur. -- Alexander Pope
I am not a professional politician. -- John Bolton
I have had no professional training. -- William Hung
Is that a professional bread bowl? -- Dustin Scott
I want to be a professional. -- Chris Burke
The whole educational and professional training system... -- Noam Chomsky
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. -- Edward Appleton
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. -- Edward Appleton
Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass. -- Bill Shankly
I'm not a social rider. Strictly professional. -- Ron Perlman
Here in America, people are very professional. -- Alessandra Ambrosio
I don't think any professional accepts defeat. -- Mariano Rivera
Rent' was my first professional job, ever. -- Aaron Tveit
True professional selling is simply sharing enthusiasm. -- Dan Miller
Design your site so it looks professional -- B. J. Fogg
I wanted to be a professional drummer. -- Walter Payton
The time has come for professional jurors. -- Joseph Wambaugh
I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity. -- Pam Ferris
The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money. -- Jimmy Breslin
I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional. -- Winston Churchill
It is professional snobbery that refrains training rookies. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient. -- David Coverdale
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. -- Ron Perlman
I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen. -- Noel Redding
I wanted to be a professional baseball player. -- Balthazar Getty
I was supposed to be a professional rollerblader! -- Dani Levy
I'm going to become a real professional actress. -- Ester Dean
Use proper posture to realize your professional image potential. -- Cindy Ann Peterson
I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. -- John Mayall
Scientists are sometimes as competitive as professional athletes, maybe. -- Brian Kobilka
You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur. -- Katharine Hepburn
Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. -- John McCarthy
I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver. -- Carly Fiorina
I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond. -- Cat Power
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. -- Richard Bach
Let's face it: I am not a professional runner. -- Jo Brand
I am going to be a professional soccer player. -- Hope Solo
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. -- John Kruk
The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete. -- Dennis Rodman
I always told my dad I'd play professional football. -- Anthony Doerr
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. -- W. H. Auden
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. -- James Wyatt
When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. -- Bill Murray
The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance. -- Robert Audi
I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver... -- Herman Cain
Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours. -- Geoff Thompson
American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. -- Gordie Howe
I was a professional dancer before I was an actor. -- Alex Meraz
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion... -- Harry Houdini
The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo. -- Ronnie Lott
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work. -- Tom Peters
I've made a life and career as a professional musician. -- Melissa Auf der Maur
I'm a professional wrestler at heart, and I miss it. -- Dave Bautista
You have to be professional and think about the future. -- Jamie Redknapp
A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing. -- Peter Porter
The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. -- Philip Warren Anderson
Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive -- Devon Aoki
Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional? -- Sarah Jessica Parker
I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman -- Claire Bloom
I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice. -- Delta Goodrem
Being a professional does not have a very high standard. -- Terry Bozzio

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