Amateur Quotes

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

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

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.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

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.