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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
— Larry MacPhail
If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.
— Michio Kaku
A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.
— Harlan Ellison
Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I began to appreciate that the job of an amateur sleuth was not quite so straightforward as they make out in the whodunits.
— Bruce Beckham
Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.
— Frankie Avalon
A new book is still on its trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it.
— Athanasius Of Alexandria
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
— Guido Van Rossum
I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.
— Tim Heidecker
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
— Dan Jenkins
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
— Will Rogers
I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
— Benjamin Disraeli
An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
— Juan Manuel Marquez
True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.
— Matt McGorry
First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.
— Arnold Palmer
Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.
— Kenny Anderson
The word amateur comes from the Latin root meaning "to love.
— Steven Pressfield
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
— Charlotte Cotton
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
— Julia Cameron
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
— Richard Bach
If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.
— Edward Klein
Stubbornly unsolved, and of the laborious and ongoing task of decipherment and translation. For the curious amateur,
— Alison Croggon
Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge — Jennifer A. Girardin
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The sure sign of an amateur is he has a million plans and they all start tomorrow.
— Steven Pressfield
Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
— Helen Gurley Brown
An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
— Joel Kinnaman
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
— Robert Breault
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
— Lasse Hallstrom
I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.
— Michael Pollan
Even in death, her mother was winning.
— Noorilhuda
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
— Avery Brundage
The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.
— David Devant
My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.
— Ozzy Osbourne
That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.
— Brian Boitano
I'll always be an amateur photographer.
— Elliott Erwitt
I would say I am an amateur guitarist.
— Rain Phoenix
Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.
— Richard Condon
Every professional was once an amateur.
— Alexander Pope
Never refer to your wedding night as the original amateur hour.
— Phyllis Diller
Every expert was once an amateur.
— Jeekeshen Chinnappen
The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.
— Stephen Covey
I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.
— Rupert Sheldrake
Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.
— Julie Andrews Edwards
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish ... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
— Andreas Feininger
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
— Red Adair
Without professionalism I'd be an amateur, and the clients I want don't hire amateurs.
— David Airey
You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
— Katharine Hepburn
I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.
— Tracy Austin
You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.
— Nonito Donaire
Every artist was first an amateur.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
— Stephen Sondheim
AN ARTIST IS FIRST AN AMATEUR
— Henry David Thoreau
I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.
— Casey Neistat
The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
— Fran Tarkenton
I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.
— David Campese
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.
— Bruce Schneier
I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
— Patti Smith
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
— James Whistler
Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.
— Armand Hammer
The amateur tweets. The pro works.
— Steven Pressfield
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
— Ben Affleck
As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.
— Ricky Hatton
I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.
— Luke Donald
I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.
— Jahangir Khan
An amateur is anyone who hasn't learned how not to do it,' I said.
— Gregory David Roberts
I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
— Barry Humphries
I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.
— Rory McIlroy