Famous Quotes & Sayings

It didn't matter where the amateur hit his shot on that hole, the place went crazy. It was really neat. We'd like to get something like that going.

It is a fun way to promote Yahoo Video Search and acknowledge amateur videophiles,

Susan Harris

We Three Apples, we try to cater to a range of people in the storytelling community - from the listener to the amateur to the professional.

Harland Williams

Well, you know, I just did the old 'let's go down to amateur night,'

He will have one of the most important jobs in our organization. He'll have complete autonomy in the amateur draft.

John Gardner

He has had phenomenal impact on amateur hockey.

He made a style of telescopes that became the standard for amateur astronomers big and cheap. Before that, they were expensive and small. That was an enormous contribution, and he challenges people with telescopes to share them with others who don't.

David Morrell

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

Chelsea Cain

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

Enrico Caruso

The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.

Howie Mandel

In the mid-1970s, there was this huge boom of stand-up comedy throughout North America. I went to see a show at a club called Yuk-Yuks, in Toronto, and I was just fascinated. I ended up coming back for amateur hour on a Monday at midnight and got up there without any thought as to what might come of it.

There are guys out there who can hit it with him in terms of distance, but I've never seen somebody who hits it that far and that straight. I told people he'd be a better pro than an amateur -- and he had a great amateur career -- because he could use his strengths to separate himself from the field. On tour, if you can hit it far and straight, you can get at those flags in the corners with a short iron. John can do that. I think he's the best driver of the ball in the game.

Jon Katz

Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are small amateur operations run out of garages and back yards. Their members may identify strongly with animals as victims, sometimes because of traumas and disappointments in their own lives. Others simply love animals and want to help them.

Fighting in the Golden Gloves makes you ready to fight. Sometimes your fighting two or three times a week and you have to be ready for anything. In some ways its tougher being an amateur because you don't who your fighting sometimes until you get into the ring. In the pros you know who your fighting and you can prepare.

We always want to showcase our local talent with local bands and amateur singers, too.

Sergei Bubka

Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

Jennifer Saunders

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.

Paula Creamer

To me it feels like Michelle has been a pro for a long time. But it's different than being an amateur golfer. There is just that extra little pressure that gets put on you.

Marcia Muller

Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever.

Tamba Hali

We got in contact with him from the airport. He uses amateur radios, and that's how we reached him. He sponsored us to come to the United States.

Ben Shahn

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Matt Kuchar

I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia.

It is an amateur team. There is no way to handicap it to make it a level playing field. Nonetheless, memories are going to be made here and maybe we can grow the game and create a greater interest.

Emanuel Steward

I said two years ago that the European fighters and the Africans would take control because I hate to say it their amateur system is better than our American system. They're benefiting from that good foundation, and then they're spending more time staying and training over here and getting used to a variety of styles that they don't see in Europe. They're also developing sort of a gangster mentality, whereas before their mental makeup was a little more delicate.

George Martin

Logan's used to pressure. He won the junior amateur (last summer) in a playoff. He holds up well. He just peaked at the right time. He knows how to control his emotions.

George Martin

Logan's used to pressure. He won the junior amateur (last summer) in a playoff, ... He holds up well. He just peaked at the right time. He knows how to control his emotions.

Robert Zubrin

Mars coming this close is an excellent opportunity for amateur astronomers to see Mars, ... With a good amateur telescope right now, you can easily see the ice cap on the Martian pole.

It felt great to be on that stage in front of so many friends and family. It was different than fighting at the amateur level. I came out to my own music and I had on my own boxing outfit. I could feel the electricity and it only drove my to push harder.

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

Patrick Chan

In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.

Rickie Fowler

Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.

Mark Johnson

You always want to get into the winner's circle. But it isn't easy. There are so many good players and those opportunities don't come around that often. I am new at this, but I played a lot of amateur golf to prepare for this.

Well, ... we're not going to whine about it. What good does that do? You can find ways to say, 'Woe is me.' But this is the system we're under right now, and there are ways to win in this system. You can do it through the Amateur Draft. You can do it through the Rule 5 draft. You can get lucky with a kid from Venezuela.