The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten

It was a very exciting time for me to play professional football, finally.
Jim Otto

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
Lee R. Raymond

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
Olivier Martinez

You have to be professional and think about the future.
Jamie Redknapp

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.
Guy Forget

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
Wentworth Miller

Professional sports is a business.
Lynn Swann

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman.
Claire Bloom

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
Ben Affleck

The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get.
Robert Kirby

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Casey Stengel

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
Sonia Sotomayor

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Red Adair

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.
Francis Ford Coppola

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.
Sarah Vowell

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
Jay Leno

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
Brit Hume

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.
Jimmy Fallon

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
Ethel Merman