An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
I always had my feet in two places when I was doing amateur dance in Seattle.
Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.
Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.
I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.
Remember, every pro was first an amateur. Start your dream now!
The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.
Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.
Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.
I joined an amateur drama group as a teenager, fell in love with theatre, and it totally changed my life.
From 1964 to 1968, I won many state, national and international amateur karate titles.
I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star.
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.
I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.
I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.
You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!
I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.
When I was six, I joined an amateur club called VK Tielrode in Belgium where I lived.
There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.
I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
The Olympics are the biggest thing in boxing and the more you do as an amateur, the better deal you get as a pro.
My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.
Tyson Fury and I go back. He won the amateur championships the same year I did.
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.
XYIENCE is a great brand, and they've also worked to help inspire my team of amateur fighters.
If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.
For the majority of my amateur boxing career, I was the underdog weirdly enough and that served me well.
I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.
I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
I once played amateur tournament tennis six months without double-faulting.
Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
As a child, I always thought about big screen and even played in a amateur theatrical studio.
The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
I believe amateur boxing training should be available in schools. Not for all, but for those who want to.
A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.
I fought Culcay as an amateur in the 2007 world championships, so we have some history together in the ring.
The AAC is the best amateur event in the region and the most important tournament to me every year.
I always said as an amateur that I'd want to one day fight and beat Kindelan because he was the best out there.
I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.
An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
The story of 'Punyakoti' is real-intense. It has a lot of layers and is not as simple as the stuff I wrote when I was an amateur.
Jerry Brisco, who is a WWE Hall of Famer, goes out and scouts all of the amateur wrestling.
The thing that people don't know about me - I actually boxed amateur for a few years.
Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
I boxed, I was 2-0 as far as amateur boxing and it was fun but I didn't really want to compete no more.
In Japan, when I went there, there was no professionalism at all. But the biggest advantage was that everyone was united and wanted to progress from amateur football to professional.
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