#professional

I think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever they need to do to prepare, more often than not they're not in a very professional environment where you've got a high performance director and a coach that are really monitoring your daily activities. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#athletes #coach #daily #dedicated #director

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#comfort #doubt #expressions #intercourse #job

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#box #challenges #did #felt #highest

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#developer #leaving #long #people #professional

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#fathers #killing #left #means #mothers

I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting tables and doing theater. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#company #did #doing #friends #i

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#did #i #lot #performing #professional

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

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