Top 604 Amateur Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.
I started wrestling when I was eight years old with the amateur wrestling team in Mexico.
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
I'm aware that there are a lot of guys playing at amateur level with a build like mine and I say stick at it, use what you've got to make an impact on the game.
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.
I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.
Maybe the best way to get people to be pro-life is to start 'em off in amateur-life.
All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's.
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Queens Park was amateur, so you do not get paid. You need to make a living, and for the first few years, when I was in the youth side, it was fine because I was still at school.
I started learning filmmaking by joining a weekend film school in Bengaluru. I made some amateur short films that got appreciation from people around me.
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
Just because you are a good amateur, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good professional.
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
I can go any style - hook up, lock up, take you down - and do all kinds of amateur moves.
In my heart I like to remain an amateur, in the sense of being in love with what I'm doing, forever astonished again at the endless possibilities of seeing and using the camera as a recording tool.
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.
With amateur boxing, you're just entered into a competition. And to be the best, you've got to beat the best. You're not waiting around to get these fights organised.
That's where my amateur background helps. You step on a scale, you fight whoever they tell you to fight.
The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.
I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.
Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.
I want to be a paleontologist, whether it's amateur or professional. And I want to be a humanitarian.
I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.
I'm a product of amateur wrestling, and there is no one there to help you with matches or win matches - you have to do it yourself.
We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
I'm obsessed with karaoke, but I don't like to sing. I just like to go and watch amateur singers.
I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.
A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.
If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.
Without social media, I'd probably just be a quirky, amateur photographer with a hard drive full of photos. I'd be cold calling respected publications, begging for a feature.
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.
Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.
My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.
I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
I lost as amateur, I lost a bunch of times as a wrestler, and you always come back.
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego.
Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
While growing up, my dream and my goal was to win an Olympic gold medal. I did that, and both times, they were the proudest moments in my amateur career.
I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.
Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of that, they became informed amateurs. We've lost that.
I always felt there was a chip on my shoulder at the junior stage, the amateur stage.
As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.
Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.
Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic
