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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
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
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within… — Bernard DeVoto
Ill always be an amateur photographer. — Elliott Erwitt
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
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
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
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
The amateur tweets. The pro works. — Steven Pressfield
Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur. — Jack the Ripper
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
I love mixing amateurs and professionals. — Lasse Hallstrom
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
I was planning to remain an amateur for a while. — Tracy Austin
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur. — Tracy Austin
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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
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
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
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
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
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage
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
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… — KatÃ³ Lomb
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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