Amateur Quotes

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.

I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.

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

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

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

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

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

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.

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

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

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

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.

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

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

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

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.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.