#professional

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#change #circumstances #going #good #harder

You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#because #before #enough #even #everything

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. ↗

— Gordie Howe

#athletes #bilingual #english #profanity #professional

Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often unsupported themselves. Rather than being supported, workers are often ridiculed, castigated or accused of being gullible or of giving the survivor false memories. Many workers work in isolation and a climate of hostility and are unable to talk about the work they do. Yes, despite all the odds, survivors of ritual abuse are beginning to speak out about their experiences, and some people, mainly in voluntary organisations, are beginning to listen to them and support them. [Published 2001] ↗

— Laurie Matthew

#child-abuse #childabuse #childhood-abuse #false-memories #healing

But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves. ↗

— Nathan Filer

#mental-health #mental-health-professionals #mental-health

Well, I'm a professional. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#professional #well

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#life #little #prize #professional #professional life

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#had #how #i #me #professional

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding. ↗

— Travis Barker

#breaking #had #half #i #kept

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#biggest obstacle #changing #necessity #obstacle #professional