If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.
Gerald McRaney

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
Gregg Easterbrook

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.
Bobby Hull

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
Arthur Wellesley

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.
Karrie Webb

I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues.
Len G. Murray

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.
Rio Ferdinand

Without a doubt, professional boxers are the most exploited athletes in our Nation.
Charles W. Pickering

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.
Neville Marriner

My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.
Alfred Molina

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.
Debra Messing

Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever.
Helena Christensen

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it. These are the highest-paid "professional" women in America.
Gail Sheehy

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.
Alex Morrison

Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was.
Jeffrey Skilling

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
Adrian Edmondson

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.
Morton Feldman

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.
John Mayall

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
Samuel E. Morison

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.
Janine Turner