Professional Quotes

• I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Professional

• I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.

  

  Anatoly Chubais
  • Doubt
  • Professional

• While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Professional

• I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • Life
  • Done
  • Professional

• The game of Bees in the Trees is a variant of musical chairs and is best played with funeral music and in the open air. The object of the game is to sit down on a vacant chair when the music stops. If the chair sat in is occupied by bees, it is permissible to arrange a professional foul.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Music
  • Game
  • Air

• They’re shaken. Longtime dancing professional Sharma Burgess was n’t happy with the way things went down. There's no place for this in the ballroom.

  

  Cheryl Burke
  • Professional
  • Ballroom
  • Sharma Burgess

• I've always wanted to become a professional soccer player.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Player
  • Professional
  • Soccer

• I was supposed to be a professional rollerblader!

  

  Dani Levy
  • Professional
  • Supposed
  • Rollerblader

• I have complete confidence in Secret Service. These guys and gals are unbelievably professional. They know what they’re doing and I basically do what they tell me to do. Now, sometimes I’m the first one to admit that it chafes a little bit being inside this bubble. It’s the hardest adjustment of being president, not being able to just take a walk.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Guy
  • Confidence
  • Service

• I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

  

  Red Smith
  • World
  • Way
  • Suffering

• The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Work
  • Great
  • Job

• Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

  

  Dolores Huerta
  • Work
  • Different
  • Pride

• At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Professional
  • Atlanta
  • Rehearsals

• There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Professional
  • Dying
  • Rejection

• When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Player
  • Basketball
  • Laugh

• We got together, and Bruce Willis was just a sweet animal, a sweetheart. I tell you, right down to the core he's just a real professional, a real gentleman, and I must say I'm so very happy for him that he's got a heck of a good film.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Happy
  • Animal
  • Good Film

• It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Genius

• Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Past

• It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Done
  • Job
  • Professional

• When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a skilled intelligence professional, everything looks like a vital source for collection.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Professional

• One of our six key strategic priorities was the reinforcement of all professional staffing and solutions business.

  

  Alain Dehaze
  • Business
  • Professional

• 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
  • Professional
  • Golf
  • Chances

• I always wanted to be a professional player, but when I started playing well in Challengers and, for the first time, I did well at ATP tournaments, I saw that these guys are also beatable.

  

  Dominic Thiem
  • Time
  • Player
  • Professional

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