Professional Quotes

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category.

Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.

I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.

We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.

People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.

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

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.