#profess

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ↗

#becoming #i #musician #never #professional

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports. ↗

— Willie Mays

#ball #birmingham #black #came #guys

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. ↗

— Willie Mays

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #became #before

Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#enjoy #game #global #i #i love

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#fleas #must #professor #theory

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. ↗

— Evo Morales

#capacity #change #change things #colonial #combine

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again. ↗

— Liv Ullmann

#gets #more #more people #never #older

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#fun #helps #i #me #need

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#i #i love #love #me #profession

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives. ↗