#professional

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. ↗

— David Antin

#engineer #farmer #i #into #mother

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success. ↗

— Greg Akcelrod

#ball player #become #everything #football #football player

Here in America, people are very professional. ↗

— Alessandra Ambrosio

#here #people #professional #very

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

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#grew #i #musical #musician #nobody

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. ↗

— Chili Davis

#bat #effortless #first #first time #game

I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle. ↗

— Judy Davis

#because #becomes #brushed #curly #first

Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#being #connection #ears #feel #just

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#city #descriptions #everybody #grandmother #identified

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly. ↗

— Jim Evans

#become #coaches #crossed #dealt #decision