Amateur Quotes
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
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There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.
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I like amateur things.
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I would say I am an amateur guitarist.
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After I won my first amateur fight, I figured I would do fighting on the side while I was going to school. I got an offer after that amateur fight to take a professional fight. The opponent kind of wanted to have an easy win for her pro debt, and they said they'd pay me $1,500. I was like, 'Yeah, might as well get paid for what I was doing.'
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You're right, but Alexander Cartwright was a good friend of Shakespeare's and they played a prototype game in an amateur league back then ...
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I'm really considering getting into amateur wrestling and getting into more tournaments. I'm looking into going to do some Jiu-Jitsu tournaments. I'm looking into everything.
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Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.
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I'm a product of amateur wrestling, and there is no one there to help you with matches or win matches - you have to do it yourself.
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Kurt Angle was amazing. He was the person who got me into pro wrestling. He found me when I was at the Olympic training center just wrestling, amateur wrestling.
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As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
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A great champion needs a background in amateur boxing, I'm convinced of that. There you learn everything that youll need later as a pro. Someone whos got more than 400 amateur fights behind him no longer gets nervous before going into the ring and doesnt lose his nerve during a fight. You know all the boxing styles, youre prepared for anything, youve got the pedigree that you need to be a successful pro.
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I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.
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There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
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Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.
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I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.
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I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.
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I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.
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People ask me if I'm going to open a school. Why not? I think I should. Maybe not a typical school where anyone can come but with young fighters definitely one day. I don't have the nerves for amateurs.
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Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.
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Most nervous I've ever been is probably the 2007 Walker Cup. I was a little boy playing with these 8 or 9 other guys that were the best amateurs in the country.
