Amateur Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

I built my own hi-fi set and enjoyed helping friends with their amateur radio transmitters, but lost interest as soon as they worked.

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.