Amateur Quotations | Page 2

As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom.

As a baseball operation, we are seeking to carry on the Dodgers' long tradition of developing top-notch players. This honor directly reflects on the job that amateur scouting director Logan White and player development director Terry Collins and their entire staffs have done in finding and cultivating the talent of these young players.

The MNST is made up of the best players in the country still playing amateur soccer. It's a great honor to have Hugh representing our campus.

You're right, but Alexander Cartwright was a good friend of Shakespeare's and they played a prototype game in an amateur league back then ...

You're paired with a pro, but it's two different divisions, ... There's a pro division and an amateur division. You're just on the pro's boat.

This is a major advance for amateur golf. It gives amateurs who do not have access to substantial family resources the opportunity to receive help from friends and supporters so they can compete against their peers.

This is a major advance for amateur golf.

Amateur radio interests me for a variety of reasons. There's the technical aspect of it ... but you get to talk to people from all over the country, all over the world, that you would never get the chance to talk to in any other way.

Amateur boxing is considered one of the safer contact sports. It is completely separate from the professionals. Bloody noses and cut lips will happen, but you will never see cuts around the eyes.

They're all pros. This is no amateur deal. I have played with most of them for many, many years.

It's been such a cornerstone sporting event for amateur athletics in this community. Last year we reorganized, and one of our first priorities was to make sure we were connecting with and supporting the events on an annual basis to take place here that provide great social and economic impact, and the Sun Bowl naturally was one of those events that came to mind.

It's just exciting to see such good results. It's very exciting for amateur golf in Canada.

It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.

It's a good paper, and I love stuff that asks the amateur community (me) to be part of the action. A much larger flux is needed in order to study the nature of the collapse through neutrino types and energies.

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.

It's hard to say who is an amateur or pro now. Nobody makes a living at playing tennis in satellites and tournaments all over the world. You don't want to stop them because of some Mickey Mouse tournaments. They're all losers in the sense that they weren't good enough to be pro.

It's great for junior golf and it is great for women's amateur golf. I'm thrilled just to be playing in this tournament. I played better today than I did Monday.

That sounds better than it is in operation. Medicaid patients frequently have difficulty finding a doctor, so to expect a doctor to put the time and energy into becoming an amateur lawyer is asking a lot.

It's still ongoing, so I don't have a number for you. But there have been a fair amount of scouts fired or reassigned on the amateur side.

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.

It's been frustrating for all us because we don't get access to all our best professional players and the guys we got here are amateur players.

It just sounds like it was amateur hour.

The two teams are really different. Japan is a very professional team and Cuba is an amateur team.

They were amateur photographers but there are some really great shots. Choosing which ones we should display was the hardest part.

Against amateurs, they have an advantage because (the Cubans) play every day. That's their job, their mission. Here in Puerto Rico, a lot of the amateur players have a day job and often practice just twice a week.

Soccer in America has never been stronger or more popular at the youth and amateur levels. Fox Soccer Channel has long played an integral role in the promotion of grass-roots soccer in the United States and will continue to lead the way with the launch of FC Fox this spring.

In sports, a significant majority of viewers are tuning into an event. But we all believe that announcers do make a difference, and we compensate them accordingly. You can not take an amateur and put them on a major sports property without cringing.

I'll probably revert to amateur status, about a three-year process, so I can play in member-guest and other amateur events.

In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away.

If you're an amateur artist, you can get it sometimes and not other times and you can't tell and you can't always do it over again.

In my seven years here, he's the best young Latin American hitter as a free-agent amateur who came here.

I played alongside him at the Canadian Amateur recently (Deacon lost in the second round) and I could sense he's turned a corner.

Clay has made great strides in the last year and a half in terms of maturity and his level of play. What a great honor to be named among the top amateur golfers in the nation.

Because it's a national-bound tournament, some of the vice presidents of the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association are going to be here.

Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.

I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.

Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.

He's a nice guy. He's passed a couple of tests. He has a good amateur background, which is important. He's calm in the ring after fighting so long in the amateurs. He knows he can handle himself in certain situations.

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.

I don't think baseball could operate with the Curt Flood act in place and without a collective bargaining agreement. The draft (of amateur players) is immediately challengeable. While the owners might be able to have revenue sharing, there's no way they could have a luxury tax.

I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.

I believe that Dana Brown is one of the best young amateur talent evaluators, especially when it comes to pitching, in Major League Baseball,

He came around the corner for this concert scene and he just had the swagger and confidence, ... He was Johnny Cash - badass. For an amateur like me, it was suddenly clear what real acting is.

For the moment the priority has to be looking after the interests of players at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Borders, but while it is said the club scene is amateur there is no getting away from the fact players there are semi-pro albeit mostly imports.

You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.

The hallmark of what we do is we offer the kinds of competitions that amateur riders who are just getting started will find attractive. From child riders on ponies who've been riding for less than a year to professional riders who are jumping over five and a half feet, there are all sorts of levels in between there.

All types of magic performance have a purpose. Even if it's an amateur who's trying out slight of hand on YouTube.

Among the field at the Canadian men's amateur golf championship, ... were Andrew Parr, Dave Bunker and Ryan Yip, who may want to blame his putting for his second-round loss.

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.