Amateur Quotes

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

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.

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.

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

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.

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

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

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

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.

I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.