In love women are professionals men are amateurs.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

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 go back to the wealthy let's make it amateur again.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

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.

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.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur my mom caddied and that is kind of a different feeling because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat really.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached which gives me a freedom I never had before.

If you decide to design your own language there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

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 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

I was a fairly good amateur musician and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business their real passion is performing amateur operatic societies and so on.

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.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

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.

Every artist was first an amateur.