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"Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom." »Bernard De Voto
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"When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it." »Alistair Cooke
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"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it." »Leo Rosten
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"God is a snooker player, that's why all the planets are turning!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." »Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
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"I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed." »Frank Deford
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"One player practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it." »Knute Kenneth Rockne
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"Tony Gwynn was named player of the year for April." »Ralph Kiner
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"The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player." »George Bernard Shaw
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"If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man." »Ralph J. Smith
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"Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth." »T. J. Hoover
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"If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes." »Mickey Spillane
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"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business." »Bette Davis
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"The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all." »Alan Simpson
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"I may not be a Basketball player...but my sport sport is proving anyone and anybody wrong....and I don't need a cheerleading team. Because I'm all the modivation I need!" »Dominique Jasmine Washington
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"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." »Ralph Charell
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"America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." »Evan Esar
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"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." »Evan Esar
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"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing." »William Shakespeare
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"Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing."" »William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
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"“Every good game leaves the player eager to start again, unsatisfied or inspired by their opponent , there is a hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time – my regret is that there is not enough time to play Paul F. Meekin again and win back my watch.”" »Jay Whitehead
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"Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you made mistakes, learn to accept that we are all imperfect. Only hindsight is 20-20. If you are convinced that you have real guilt, consider professional or spiritual counseling (with a competent and trustworthy counselor). If you believe in God a pastor can help you believe also in God's forgiveness." »Amy Hillyard Jensen
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"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." »Thomas Huxley
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"If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance." »Niccola Sebastiani
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"A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind." »Harold Taylor
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"The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work." »Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
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