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Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong. -- Steven Jackson
Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game. -- Chuck Bednarik
Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. -- Colin Powell
Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. -- Harvey Mackay
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way. -- Tom Peters
Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros. -- Bobby Knight
There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars. -- Lee Trevino
Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways. -- Tom Brady
If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. -- Tony Blair
Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros. -- Bobby Orr
With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty. -- Marcia Cross
The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness. -- Rob Sheffield
I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there. -- Michael Cooper
There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't. -- Lupe Fiasco
Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. -- David Herbert Donald
Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information. -- Martha Beck
Whether you are new to the scene or a long-time grillmaster, everyone has unique preferences when it comes to their cooking method of choice. From propane to charcoal to wood, people take their method of grilling quite seriously, and some argue quite passionately about the pros and cons of each method. -- Homaro Cantu
Added to the rooster of courses, 'Tiger Woods 10' adds in seven new courses from the pristine Bethpage Black, home of this year's U.S. Open, to the legendary Pinehurst. The Wii Weather Channel will even adjust the forecast to match the fairway because sometimes even the pros have to play in the rain. -- Rob Manuel
As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market. -- Robert Kiyosaki
With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour. -- Mario Andretti
The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you're able to start knowing exactly where you're going to finish and really paint something in between. You can work to know the arc you need to build. Whereas in television, it is open-ended, and you're constantly guessing. There are pros and cons to both. -- Rose McIver
I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene. -- Lauren Bacall
We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots. -- Colin Cooper
Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves. -- Sheena Iyengar
I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and especially when I finally did get something, both my parents have been so supportive and always told me it is all about passion and, if I was doing it because I love it, there's no wrong choice. -- Lily Collins
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style. -- James Wolcott
There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers. -- Joel Osteen
There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? -- Andrea Jung
I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros. -- Maria Sharapova
The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves. -- Michelle Rodriguez
When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong. -- Carl Icahn
People are vocal, so you hear the pros and cons of your shows. -- Jim Rash
Every job has its pros and cons. The NFL just has more of both. -- Tony Danza
Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end. -- Eugene Jarecki
Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros. -- Blaine Hogan
I didn't want to be one of those ex-pros, aye hanging around. I think that's wrong. -- Drew Busby
Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros. -- Brian Leetch
I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English. -- Roberto De Vicenzo
I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros. -- Raphael Saadiq
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. -- Sigmund Freud
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice. -- Kacy Catanzaro
I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think. -- Dan Marino
Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds. -- Alexander Elder
New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management. -- Chris Lytle
LSU fans have descended upon Dallas and reminded us of this truth: when it comes to partying, they're the pros and we're all amateurs. -- Pat Forde
You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time. -- Burt Ward
I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players. -- Masahiro Tanaka
I like doing my makeup myself! It's a hobby of mine. I like to play around. I've learned all the best tricks from the pros! -- Natasha Poly
If you're a foolhardy, braggadocios male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that's for sure. -- Cody Rhodes
[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something. -- Emily Haines
I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice. -- Dan Jenkins
They are definitely pros and cons to triple threat matches. The cons to them is obviously coming up wth something very original and making sure everything makes sense. -- Adam Cole
These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros. -- Troy Vincent
The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA. -- Grant Hill
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I started out in a kid's backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can't touch you, they can't tackle you. -- Mercury Morris
Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about. -- Dan Jenkins
The pros and cons of using the apron are likely above my pay grade, but with or without it, the Indy 500 is always going to be an exciting race to watch. -- Charlie Kimball
I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there. -- Tom Colicchio
I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career. -- Nancy Kerrigan
Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?" "They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros. -- Ally Carter
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture. -- Alan Kay
My parents are always supportive of anything their kids do. They point out the pros and cons, but they let you make your own decisions, and when it's bad they stick by you. -- Eleanor Mondale
You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today. -- Oscar Robertson
Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree. -- Clint Eastwood
You go through high school and college the same way: never listening to your coaches because you're the best. But when you get to the pros, all that stops because everybody there has talent. -- Tom Brady
He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug. -- Tanya Tucker
Reason tells me, when I do the pros and cons analysis, how I should feel about it right now and how I should feel about it in 10 years from now and so that the only... -- Sheena Iyengar
Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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