“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
“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”
Red Adair
“And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.”
Shannon Miller
“The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.”
Eric Brown
“The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.”
Andrew Greeley
“I think the sky is the limit. He's a very talented player. He's played with the Haitian national team. Professional ball is definitely in his future.”
Bill Johnson
“I had a dream to become a professional player that could not be realized in Cuba. I don't have a doubt in my mind that I made the right decision.”
Maykel Galindo
