Top 604 Amateur Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

Shooting is an amateur sport, but everybody does it professionally.

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

You're master of what you've lived, artisan at what you're living, amateur at what's next to live.

There's this whole underground world of amateur television production.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

As an amateur, there are three rounds, and you have to give it all you have, throw as many punches as you can.

The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

It is a difficult decision, either to turn pro or stay amateur.

For amateur golfers, I think one of the biggest mistakes is to model their play on professionals.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

I wanted to show people the sweet science I have, from my amateur background.

Never refer to your wedding night as the original amateur hour.

Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.

I stopped amateur skating competitively when I was 15.

My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.

A professional is an amateur who has been working for a long time.

No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

When I was a kid, I wrestled my high school amateur wrestling in junior year.

I owe a great debt to what we call the amateur theater.

In my pro and amateur fights I've always mentioned Mexico.

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.

For my money, Dan Hodge is the greatest amateur wrestler ever produced in the U.S.A.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur.

You just have to play it cool. You don't want everyone to know you're an amateur.

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that's where I was born. I've always wanted to wrestle.

As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.

Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

If you look at MMA, you don't have an amateur MMA. You have some of these young men like James Kirkland who had 140 amateur fights, I had 3. My skill level was I was just powerful as hell, I didn't know how to actually box in the beginning. I was just punching them, the skill level wasn't there. You will have one or two females that are really skillful, but who are they gonna box to get better. MMA is just more exciting because you kick and throw people on the ground and whatever. But people tuned into a fighter like me because I put people to sleep.

I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.

Without professionalism I'd be an amateur, and the clients I want don't hire amateurs.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

Most of the time I got knockouts in my amateur fights.

Me and Bellew, we started off in the same amateur gym together.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

I felt I could play in maybe a dozen tournaments a year as an amateur.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

I've been privy to many athletic environments, both amateur and professional.

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.