Top 115 Pros Quotes

Well, I think it’s pretty much established that I just didn’t have any interest in coaching in the pros.

The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.

There are pros and cons to everything but especially with what I have chosen. There are cons – the privacy level and everything that comes with it – but I feel there are a lot more pros. And I am doing what I love to do, so I am not complaining at all.

Neville is one of my favorite pros in the business.

The best part of making the movies… learning from the pros themselves.

If I commit to pros, I really got to stick to it, and I think it was a good decision.

Because the hash marks are narrower in the pros, the ball’s always closer to the middle of the field. So if you’re a defensive back, you can wait a lot longer before committing to a certain part of the field.

Drew’s a funny guy. Because anything he gets into, he gets in 100%. Even when we were doing ‘The Drew Carey Show,’ he got into bowling, and suddenly he’s phoning up pros for tips and carrying around 3 balls. It’s just how he does it.

I’m experiencing a lot of new things in life – cars, houses, jewelry – and getting the family situated. I’ve been dealing with fake friends, though, like a lot of people trying to come around. There are pros and cons to this fame thing.

I think there are pros and cons to social networking, but on a social, personal level, it’s just not for me.

I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don’t want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don’t want to jeopardize their relationship with National Collegiate Athletic Association, which serves as a sort of free minor league and unpaid promotional department for the pros.

With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

From the very first inkling of a concept, founders need to gather a target group of five to ten potential users to begin the feedback loop. We all think we know how the market will react to new ideas, but actual users live with the pros and cons of the existing market conditions every day. They are the market experts.

Shoving with K-Q is a tactic that does work well for Internet players and weak players. In the old days, though, grizzled pros would have eaten up those guys by utilizing the traditional, more conservative style of poker that emphasizes play on the flop.

When I entered the pros, I was a young kid in the major leagues. I was 18 years old, right out of high school. I thought I knew everything, and I clearly didn’t.

Is everyone who uses a MacBook Pro a pro? No. It’s just basically a faster Mac. And certainly, pros do use them, partly for that reason.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

Two men that did treat me well from day one were Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon. Thanks to them being old pros and having the class of a pair of WWE Hall of Famers and true gentlemen, I was given a chance to prove myself to them as a human being.

My game hasn’t changed too much. I’m doing the same things as I did in college, except I’m outside more. It’s tough to go inside in the pros because the players are bigger.

I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren’t well – known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.

A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It’s a pretty short lifespan. I know all these parents are out there driving their children to be professionals, but so many pros will tell you, ‘No, you don’t want to do this.’

There is such insecurity in loving that we see all the pros and cons and then decide how much we want to invest in relationships.

The pros and cons of using the apron are likely above my pay grade, but with or without it, the Indy 500 is always going to be an exciting race to watch.

The pros stretch their bodies to the limit.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

‘The Voice’ has lots of singers who fit the ‘Idol’ mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

Most college athletes are obsessed with getting to the pros, and many of them have proved they will do anything to get there, even if it’s something unethical.

I knew the Big Ten was one of the best conferences in the country. Every night you’re up against pros. It’s just so competitive. You can get beat by any team. That’s really what I like about the Big Ten.

It’s only my first year in the pros but I feel like I’ve been here a while now, I feel like a veteran already.

I feel bad for guys in other sports that never work a job. Think about it, most MMA fighters have had to do something for money whereas a guy who was an athlete in college sport then went straight to the pros, he’s never had a skill outside of sport.

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you’re weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn’t control who goes to radio and who doesn’t.

I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

There are two things that won’t last long in this world, and that’s dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

I think that when you sort of look at what’s gone on where players are familiar with each other – it starts in high school with AAU. When they get to the pros there’s All-Star Games, they share agents and then there’s Team U.S.A. stuff. They build relationships.

I know that there’s pros and cons to everything.

Conor is not emulating me. He has to be his own man and learn his trade from the start. He will fight in the amateurs and then, if it works, the pros.

That period in the late Eighties and early Nineties was when I was playing my best snooker. My trouble was that I had so many bad habits that my preparation was terrible: people like Steve Davis or Dennis Taylor were model pros.

I don’t say what I feel. I say what was said to me because my senior professionals were amazing to me. If I can do anything similar to the young pups, I will do that. My senior pros protected me and looked after me and made me feel amazing.

It’s ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there’s a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

I think we’re all pros. If we go out there and just play basketball the right way, everything is gonna work itself out.

Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there’s more you need to know – which means it’s time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you’re unearthing genuinely new information.

There are a lot of pros to doing a film, as far as it helping your film career, and it is completely different financially. But theatre is the only place where you get to actually be the character, and nobody is going to come around and change it later.

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.

Whether you are new to the scene or a long-time grillmaster, everyone has unique preferences when it comes to their cooking method of choice. From propane to charcoal to wood, people take their method of grilling quite seriously, and some argue quite passionately about the pros and cons of each method.

Added to the rooster of courses, ‘Tiger Woods 10’ adds in seven new courses from the pristine Bethpage Black, home of this year’s U.S. Open, to the legendary Pinehurst. The Wii Weather Channel will even adjust the forecast to match the fairway because sometimes even the pros have to play in the rain.

From 1975-’79, I worked for PGA professional Tony Bruno. For five years I watched, lost in admiration, as Tony ran the golf shop at Battleground Country Club in Manalapan, N.J. Tony put in 80-hour weeks doing what nearly 29,000 men and women club pros do every day: Keeping the game alive with a smile.

I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist, and how much being an artist can be torture to people around you; you know, you friends and your family and how material you can be, and how it’s hard to take criticism and all the things like that.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

As far as the pros, people pay to come and see us, and I appreciate it because I’m able to take care of my family. So I don’t really judge fans about what they say, good or bad.

I’m blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can’t say I’m adept. Still, I’m definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.

I’m not a regionalist. Both places have their pros and cons. And the cultural differences are slighter than they are made out to be. L.A. riots, N.Y. shops. Both are good for stress relief.

So many kids dream about playing in the NFL. But I was 130 pounds in ninth grade. I looked around and didn’t see any 130-pound wide receivers in the pros.

I know there are pros and cons about the studio system.

You learn in the pros that errors can be costly.

When you look at coaching in the pros 25-plus years, I have been with rebuilding teams and I have been with championship teams, and so I know all the steps in-between.

I think the biggest thing was that when I was in college, I really concentrated on personnel. That was my strength, and I was, in essence, my own recruiting coordinator. And when I went to the pros, I did the same thing.

That’s what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

I was playing 60, 70 matches a year in college. In the pros, unless you’re winning, you’re not playing that many.

I was approached by a company in San Francisco called Fantex. I did my due diligence on it. I tried to outweigh the pros and cons. Then I just made a business decision.

I don’t know if there were many pros for me playing early. I feel like I dug myself a pretty deep hole that rookie year.

As a young footballer at United, Steve Bruce was one of the senior pros I really admired.

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He’s the best wing player I’ve ever coached. But he’s done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he’ll be physically ready.

Our job as pros is to walk a very fine line: be the best but stay healthy so you can continue to progress and be at the top. You can’t push the sport and yourself if you’re always hurt.

Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don’t know ourselves.

The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you’re able to start knowing exactly where you’re going to finish and really paint something in between. You can work to know the arc you need to build. Whereas in television, it is open-ended, and you’re constantly guessing. There are pros and cons to both.

He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

There’s pros and cons to everything, and I choose to look at the positives.

If you’re a foolhardy, braggadocio male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that’s for sure.

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.

I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I’m in awe of how they play. Not one particular player – maybe all the players.

There is not one style in particular that suits me. I think that every formation has its pros and cons. It’s crucial to have a coach who understands your strengths and weaknesses. Obviously, I prefer to play up front, close to the opponents. That way I can make use of my strengths in one-on-one situations.

Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It’s not a minor league or an audition for the pros.

Doug Ford was one of the first of the old pros I saw during my first full year on tour, in 1963. To this day he’s the best chipper I’ve ever seen. One thing Doug did was get the ball onto the green and rolling right away, keeping it as low as possible. He never hit his chips higher than was absolutely necessary.

When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

When I used to fight in the amateurs, guys wouldn’t show up for the finals and I won the tournament. They wouldn’t call my name when it was time to get the trophy. They called everyone else’s name. Believe me, you remember things like that. I’d say there was disrespect there. It’s followed me into the pros.

You can cook a limited number of sous vide recipes in a beer cooler, but if the person you’re buying for wants to start cooking like the pros, they’ll need a dedicated circulator that’s designed to maintain the temperature of a water bath to within one degree.

For me, I have a bunch of friends back home in Canada who play online all the time – so we get mic’d up, join the same party, and just play. We are good enough to compete with ‘Call of Duty’ pros, so, the competition is what keeps bringing me back.

The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don’t like that very much at all.

I grew up knowing the pros and cons of the business and knowing what comes with pursuing what you love in terms of being in the public eye. I also grew up among people that were considered celebrities and people that people admired.

People are vocal, so you hear the pros and cons of your shows.

With the red hair, you get the white skin; it’s a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that’s what I think.

I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you’re up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.

Deep-stack games like High Stakes Poker are the favorites among both poker pros and avid fans of televised poker. In these games, the most talented players shine and the most exciting action takes place.

You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.

You weigh your pros and cons and what’s real. You want to play baseball? Yeah. You want to go to school? If that’s the best option, than that is what it is.

You have to show up at 7 in the morning and be on like it’s 9 at night. It’s a skill. Some comics run from it, and they hate doing it, but the comics that are pros understand how important it is, and they get good at it.

In ‘Stranger Things,’ of course, I have all these kids around me and I feel like on a TV show, you’re more connected with everyone already. But it’s fun getting on a movie set and getting to know everyone. There’re pros and cons to everything.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

My best friend in the pros is Brandon Davies, who I played with at BYU.

I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear.

I think it’s a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

I play fairly aggressively week to week and fire at a lot of pins. So I might miss more greens than other pros, but I’m still only a few yards from the hole when I do. That being said, when I really need to hit a green in regulation, I’m confident in my swing.

We had a show called NXT, and Daniel Bryan was my rookie, and I was his pro. And the object was for the pros teach the rookies what it’s like to be a WWE Superstar. As soon as that hit the Internet, the Internet thought it was absurd: ‘How dare WWE put Daniel Bryan as Miz’s rookie? Daniel Bryan should be the pro.’

The guy who enters pro sports hasn’t run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it’s been nothing but roses.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

We’ve got the blue-collar pros here in San Diego.

I don’t think that golf has a place for two sets of rules. I think one of the reasons that the game has progressed in the way that it has over the years is the fact that the amateurs and the pros all play the same game, and they play under the same set of rules.

Pros in state capitals across the country and inside the Beltway might be more skeptical, but they’re still vulnerable. They should be on vigilant watch for Sacha Baron Cohen and a legion of his imitators.

I know there’s pros and cons to Trump, and people talk crap that he’s had a lot of failed businesses, but failing a lot sometimes means you’ve tried more. And a lot of those people have succeeded more times than they failed.

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can’t look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

It can be a quick career if you don’t perform properly. If some of these pros don’t do something to reinvent themselves, they’re going to go down the rankings as quick as anything.

The women tennis pros don’t really want equal pay for equal work. They want equal pay for inferior work.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

I don’t really think too much about special effects because that’s not really something I can clearly visualize, so I leave that to the pros.

The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.

Netflix, like life, has its pros and cons.

The days of 35-year-old pros turning up in the States to earn easy money before retiring are long gone and the MLS is a really competitive league.

I wish I had more opportunities to play for Canada when I was younger, but pros just never had the chance in those days. It was just set up that way.

College is a lot different than the pros.

I think the idea of a ‘perfect job’ is a myth – there are pros and cons of every position, good days and bad days, and even what most people would consider dream jobs come with their share of downsides.