#profession

Professional sports is a business. ↗

— Lynn Swann

#professional #professional sports #sports

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#consider #directly #duty #few #get

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old. ↗

— Mel Torme

#any #begin #course #did #drums

Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes. ↗

— Delia Smith

#five #minutes #only #oven #professionally

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it. ↗

— James Spader

#bang #earn #easy #fun #given

I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category. ↗

— Lionel Stander

#appear #category #consider #either #entertainment

There is no there there. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#book writing #business #horse #horse racing #like

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#agents #athletes #cameron #ever #few

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#alcohol #among #athletes #because #convince