Amateur Quotes

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.

There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.

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

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

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

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

Every artist was first an amateur.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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