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If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. Red Adair | top
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Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best. Alexis Arguello | top
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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 | top
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At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. Henry Bessemer | top
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I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics. Bjork | top
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That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way. Brian Boitano | top
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Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. Avery Brundage | top
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Maybe the best way to get people to be pro-life is to start 'em off in amateur-life. Brian Celio | top
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Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. Alfred Eisenstaedt | top
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My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs. Jim Evans | top
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For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage. Andrew Gould | top
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In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. Robert Graves | top
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University. Alan Greenspan | top
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It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it. Dorothy Hamill | top
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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five. Sugar Ray Leonard | top
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Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system. Dan Marino | top
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Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset. Simon van der Meer | top
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I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality. Richard Price | top
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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur. Will Rogers | top
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Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House. Donald Rumsfeld | top
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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free. Bob Schieffer | top
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The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. Lytton Strachey | top
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There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business. Ethel Waters | top
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Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. Edward Weston | top
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Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket. Frank Woolley | top