Amateur

To me it feels like Michelle has been a pro for a long time. But it's different than being an amateur golfer. There is just that extra little pressure that gets put on you.

- Paula Creamer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For the moment the priority has to be looking after the interests of players at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Borders, but while it is said the club scene is amateur there is no getting away from the fact players there are semi-pro albeit mostly imports.

- Jim Hay Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You're paired with a pro, but it's two different divisions, ... There's a pro division and an amateur division. You're just on the pro's boat.

- Andy Dick Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

- Aaron Copland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

- Marshall McLuhan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

- Alan Greenspan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If you're an amateur artist, you can get it sometimes and not other times and you can't tell and you can't always do it over again.

- Bruce Nauman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's a very democratic instrument, everyone is reduced to the same amateur level.

- David Byrne Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The prize money for first place was 2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

- Tracy Austin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is only the amateur gardener like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

- Freya Stark Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He became an American citizen and, after a brief amateur boxing career in the early 1920s, performed in vaudeville and on Broadway before launching a film career in 1938 that included starring roles in 54 feature films, including his On the Road ... The Road to Singapore.

- Bing Crosby Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A 66 at Royal Lytham and St. Annes in the 1996 British Open convinced Woods he was ready, and Els was the first person he told. (The secret was kept for a month, until Tiger had collected his third Amateur title.) Ernie tied for second at Lytham, Woods for 22nd (low amateur), so their presence was required at Tom Lehman's crowning. Afterward, in the clubhouse bar, they had a beer. I don't have to tell you, ... you're more than good enough to be playing out here.

- Ernie Els Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

- Anne Tyler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Amateurs hope. Professionals work.

- Garson Kanin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We are very excited to be adding both Harold and Eric to our scouting staff. We feel very strongly that adding Harold to Ron Delorme's amateur scouting staff and Eric to our pro scouting staff will strengthen the department. It is important to our management team that both Harold and Eric have been with our franchise before and are passionate about the Canucks organization.

- Dave Nonis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

- George Bernard Shaw Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose not play an instrument, but to compose.

- Gunther Schuller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.

- Bjork Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what to do with him. Tank Abbott had an amateur background but made his name in UFC brawling. He never learned to work at all and was a victim of Vince Russo 's wackiness in WCW.

- Bryan Alvarez Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When should a college athlete turn pro Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

- Will Rogers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We are our own entity and Ralph Martin must follow our rules and regulations. Until he gets things straight, there will be no amateur boxing.

- Bobby Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You always want to get into the winner's circle. But it isn't easy. There are so many good players and those opportunities don't come around that often. I am new at this, but I played a lot of amateur golf to prepare for this.

- Mark Johnson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.

- Daniel Solove Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The last time I played a practice round (with Tiger), he was still an amateur at the time. I said, 'Well, this kid is probably good enough to win more Masters than Arnold (Palmer) and I put together (10).' It's becoming closer to true every time.

- Jack Nicklaus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

- Alvin Toffler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes