Amateur Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

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