Best Amateur Quotes
266 Amateur quotes by 225 unique authors
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Golf is a lot like sex. It's something you can enjoy all your life. And if you remain an amateur, you get to pick your…
— Unknown Author
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No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow…
— Socrates
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Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within…
— Bernard DeVoto
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Ill always be an amateur photographer.
— Elliott Erwitt
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I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's…
— Carl Lewis
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to…
— Carl Lewis
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He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.
— William Pett Ridge
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Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of…
— Marshall McLuhan
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
— Steven Pressfield
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Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur.
— Jack the Ripper
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I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
— Lasse Hallstrom
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When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf…
— Peter Lynch
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I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.
— Tracy Austin
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The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.
— Tracy Austin
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I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because…
— Fuzzy Zoeller
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I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and…
— Ernst Bacon
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The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest…
— Weston La Barre
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For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. Its…
— Andrew Gould
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We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have…
— Diane Sawyer
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Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
— Avery Brundage
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I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant…
— Christopher Buckley
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Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken…
— Kató Lomb
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In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people…
— Richard Louv
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