#profession

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003. ↗

— David Cone

#baseball #baseball player #drafted #high #high school

My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years. ↗

— Didi Conn

#company #during #encouraged #ended #first

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. ↗

— John Dalton

#day-to-day #discipline #fiction #fiction writing #highly

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession. ↗

— Rick Dees

#every #me #necessary #north #north carolina

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#aspiring #being #better #director #disregard

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#across #always #artistic #board #clues

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#compete #copying #either #handicapped #handicaps

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do. ↗

— Bob Gibson

#athlete #being #doing #else #finest

It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special. ↗

— Frank Gifford

#different #different level #fact #football #game

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis. ↗

— Bill Goldberg

#basis #daily #daily basis #number #part