Not just me but every professional footballer will tell you they miss playing the game, I miss the game especially as I retired early, not because I was a bad player but I retired solely for health reasons.
No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.
Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over.
I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist
The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.
Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your examiners. Your statistics, or your observations, or your literature study, or your something else will be patently deficient. Do not doubt that in our enlightened age the really important advances are and will be rejected more often than acclaimed. Nor should we doubt that in our own professional lifetime we too will repudiate with like pontifical finality the most significant insight ever to reach our desk.
I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.
Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?
I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson
I wanted to be a professional singeractress, though I knew it would be hard.
Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.