During my early days as a sportsman and early career as a policeman, things were tight. In athletics I competed as an amateur and, although I might have received some expenses, very little came my way in earnings.
An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.
An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
I like amateur things.
I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.
I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.
In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.
Never refer to your wedding night as the original amateur hour.
I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U. S. Amateur after Danny Lee.
My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.
The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human. I'm also from the area that is considered to be the cradle of mankind.
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.
I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.