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“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
C. Wright Mills
“Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs the ark”
Frank Pepper
“The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.”
D.H. Lawrence
“My main objective is to be professional but to kill him [Lennox Lewis].”
Mike Tyson
“In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”
Carl Rogers
“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
“I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.”
Berkeley Breathed
“If I'd had it my way, I'd have been a professional athlete, a sailor, a beachcomber, or some other form of hobo, a painter, a gardener, a novelist, a banjo-player, a traveler, anything but a rich man.”
William Steig
“[David Branch] brought a real sense of professionalism to a minor hockey team. He obviously has picked up a lot as commissioner of the Ontario Hockey League, and he brought that to our team. He made us accountable.”
Jay Harrison
“The people, not professional politicians, know best.”
Carole Keeton Strayhorn
