Professional Quotes

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching.

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.

Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people's kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget.

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

Nicol has great potential and there is a huge gap between her and the rest of the juniors. She needs to concentrate full time on the professional circuit from now on and it is the only way for her to realize her potential.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.

We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Professional competitions are overrated.