#amateur

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. ↗

— Robert Graves

#love #maintained #must #status #strictly

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#average #band #big #big band #business

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. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#because #better #channel #competitor #criticism

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

— Lasse Hallstrom

#color #documentaries #father #filmmaker #shot

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

— Richard Briers

#first #i #professional #role

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#against #amateur #back #because #discrimination

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. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#amateur #because #fighting #fights #fought

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. ↗

— John McCarthy

#bureaucrats #even #even worse #often #professional

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. ↗

— David McCullough

#amateur #because #called #fairly #hand

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

— Robert Plant

#find #historian #i #i can #pretty