#professional

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#by the time #flawed #i #professional #time

I kind of feel like I've been eating professionally for a long time. I've tasted everything. If there's a sausage, you know what? I know exactly what it tastes like. I love them all. But right now it's more important for me to not have all that grease and fat in my body. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#body #eating #everything #exactly #fat

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#decided #desperate #find #fit #grew

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#away #because #become #businessman #different

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional. ↗

— Harold Larwood

#because #becoming #club #good #his

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers. ↗

— Steve Martin

#believed #best #comedians #comedic #entertainers

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#dame #i #living #made #playing

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#always #argentina #changed #did #dream

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#because #being #benefits #better #comes

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do. ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#football #i #never #playing #professional