#professional

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place. ↗

— Luis Figo

#day #every #every day #fight #football

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#enable #him #himself #jobs #outside

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#fights #had #i #love #mentally

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice. ↗

— David Petraeus

#best #clearly #down #expressed #i

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#book #hair #hate #i #into

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers. ↗

— Tina Fey

#politics #professionalism #prostitution #virtues #dreams

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#professionalism #work #art

People wonder why I always dress professionally. I want to be admired for my intelligence, instead of my body. ↗

— Bianca Frazier

#professional-dress #intelligence

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. ↗

— Stephen King

#money #payment #professional #publishing #talent

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'" (One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.) ↗

— David Halberstam

#basketball #david-halberstam #julius-erving #professionalism #sports