135 Quotes About Amateur

After winning the Amateur I felt I should win instead of just play well.

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

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.

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

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.

We're hoping that the gap between amateur creativity and creativity funded by large, centralized media companies will probably continue to shrink.

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.

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.