135 Quotes About Amateur


  • Author Roland Barthes
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    Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography.

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  • Author Bruce Arena
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    He's an extremely graceful athlete. He's a player with an excellent first touch and great vision. He has very good attacking qualities. But we've seen him in what I would call an amateur level.

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  • Author Bryan Alvarez
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    Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what to do with him. Tank Abbott had an amateur background but made his name in UFC brawling. He never learned to work at all and was a victim of Vince Russo 's wackiness in WCW.

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  • Author Jeff Allen
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    I am headed to the World Amateur Championships in Myrtle Beach, ... I will be leaving next Sunday and the tournament goes from late August to early September.

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  • Author Kurt Angle
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    My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that's where I was born. I've always wanted to wrestle.

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  • Author Kurt Angle
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    I'm not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I'm gone, I'm gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I never went back. Same for pro.

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