Top 232 Amateur Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Amateur Quotes from famous people such as Dan Marino, Atul Kulkarni, Steven Pressfield, William Klein, Nyjah Huston, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I’d play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that’s not the system.
Dan Marino
I was initiated into acting with college plays, enacted by our amateur theatre group, Natya Aradhna, in Sholapur.
Atul Kulkarni
The amateur tweets. The pro works.
Steven Pressfield
What’s very funny is when you see amateurs filming something, they do some things no professionals would dare to do. They instinctively do things that are very avant-garde and useful.
William Klein
I won the biggest amateur contest when I was 10, and I was into X Games the next year. And then I was in a ‘Tony Hawk’ game the next year!
Nyjah Huston
There’s a particularly British way of going about things that I rather like, which is very different to the American way. It comes out of the amateur rep tradition of actors thinking: ‘Well, I’m only 26, but I’ll put on a beard and have a go at King Lear.’
Roger Allam
Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.
Simon van der Meer
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
Billy Joe Saunders
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler
Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don’t make an aggressive move. You’d be surprised how much better your swing will get if you let your natural athletic ability shine. So go after it.
Keegan Bradley
Right before I start the putter back, I think about making solid contact. This brings your attention to the back of the ball and helps keep your head still at impact, which is a must. Many amateurs take a peek down the line too soon, and that can cause all sorts of mis-hits.
Ernie Els
From 1964 to 1968, I won many state, national and international amateur karate titles.
Chuck Norris
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels – Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges – is in our own self-interest. That’s where the pool of talent is – and also of fans.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
I’ll always be an amateur photographer.
Elliott Erwitt
I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I’m a complete amateur, and I wouldn’t consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.
Eric Stoltz
I was doing it the amateur way, doing everything myself till ‘Naalaya Iyakunar.’ They said, ‘You need crew members’; they insisted on having proper production values. So I learnt a lot about making films for that show.
Karthik Subbaraj
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.
Nigel Benn
First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say ‘Vikings,’ they know exactly where you are. You say ‘Cardinals,’ well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
Bud Grant
The Republican National Convention is a great place to hear people talk about politics and values and all that sort of thing. But there’s one thing brings me back year after year, and that’s white people dancing. The RNC is the world’s premier Caucasian amateur dance festival.
Jimmy Kimmel
I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.
Claire Danes
I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you should be getting a breather, distance-wise, and instead, you get hit with a long iron or hybrid shot over trouble.
Ernie Els
For my money, Dan Hodge is the greatest amateur wrestler ever produced in the U.S.A.
Jim Ross
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
John Bercow
I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
Lasse Hallstrom
When you step foot into your first professional tournament, everything you’ve done in your amateur career really doesn’t matter any more.
Collin Morikawa
I lost an amateur fight where it was supposed to be my last amateur fight before going pro and people were like, ‘Oh, you think you’re going to make this? You just got knocked out as an amateur?’ And I went on to win 13 fights straight and become a world champion, the best in the world.
Cody Garbrandt
Once you’re an amateur wrestler, you’re always an amateur wrestler.
Jake Hager
A common mistake made by amateurs is that they fail to take advantage of players who bluff excessively. Instead of playing possum and letting their aggressive opponents continue to bet, beginners raise too early with monster hands, allowing their opponents to fold.
Daniel Negreanu
I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
Bjork
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
Robert Graves
I felt I could play in maybe a dozen tournaments a year

I felt I could play in maybe a dozen tournaments a year as an amateur.
Matt Kuchar
I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.
Steve Harvey
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers
Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is how amateurs run companies.
Steve Blank
I started out in the Apollo Theater. That’s where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
Fat Joe
My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.
Ichiro Suzuki
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.
Danny Garcia
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Woodrow Wilson
I had 33 kickboxing fights, 37 MMA fights, plus 44 amateur boxing fights, which most of them were international. I will keep fighting as long as I feel good, but I will repeat once more, any fight could be the last one.
Mirko Cro Cop
I remember when I used to go to York Hall and just watch, and I’d be like ‘how are these people doing it.’ Even though I was an amateur boxer at the time, I was like ‘how are these guys fighting professionally in this arena?’
Anthony Yarde
I’m very happy to fight on the same card with Vasyl Lomachenko and Oleksandr Gvozdyk. This is something we’ve been talking about since we were amateurs – to have three members of the 2012 Ukrainian Olympic team in the same event.
Oleksandr Usyk
Amateur wrestling was never considered a big box office draw because they’re really competing but they’re not getting a chance to call each other 16 kinds of names before the fight to get you interested.
Jim Cornette
Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president’s sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur – I would say serious amateur – painter.
Roberta Smith
A lot of great fighters were amateur wrestlers first and you can study them on film to see how they adapted the techniques.
Jake Hager
If I wasn’t a professional scientist, I’d be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.
Michio Kaku
People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can’t unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.
Jeffrey Tate
I love the idea of the amateur – that’s what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet’s doing is professionalizing everyone’s amateuristic impulses.
Lee Siegel
Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
Harvey Mackay
In the amateurs we fought four or five times a week so we always had different opponents.
Gervonta Davis
Amateurs do tactics, experts do logistics, as we learn in the military.
Joe Sestak
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
Steven Pressfield
I started doing little amateur nights at the comedy club that was right next to the restaurant that I waitressed in when I was in university. I was probably 22 years old. I didn’t do it with any intention of making a career out of it; I had just always valued comedy.
Katherine Ryan
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
Grandma Moses
I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
Juan Manuel Marquez
I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.
Tracy Austin
I never was an amateur wrestler.
Chris Jericho
The level of difficulty in most areas of MMA is very high. It’s a high learning curve. The footwork in boxing alone takes years to master. I will rely heavily on my amateur wrestling to get out of bad situations and take me from defense to offense. I’ll try to dictate the fight on my terms.
Jake Hager
I’m different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying’s for fools, dying’s for amateurs.
Charlie Sheen