I could be a model for one night. But I’m also a professional soccer player, and I like to be taken seriously on the field.
In both our personal and professional lives, there are times when reality dictates that we must stand up and ‘end’ something. Either its time has passed, its season is over, or worse, continuing it would be destructive in some way.
At the end of the day, if you’re a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
Wrestling is truly my life, and I love being part of the professional wrestling world.
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
Fairness is not an attitude. It’s a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
You can disagree with someone and still do business as a professional.
My dad has been to every soccer game that I’ve played in, both at the amateur level and at the professional level, and he always had great things to say whether we won or we lost, whether I felt great or not so great.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
I’m not a professional politician, I’m a problem solver.
‘Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind’ was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
Playing professional football is something I’ll never be able to do.
Whether you want to be a good actor or singer, you need to be responsible and professional – and you have to learn to work well with other people and be a team player.
I watched professional wrestling at a very early age.
It’s the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller – writer, musician, filmmaker.
Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men’s clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.
I am hugely honored to represent my country in the Olympics and in World Cups, and I’m grateful for all the advantages being a professional soccer player brings my way – the opportunities to see the world, the camaraderie and friendships, and more.
I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.
Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
I’m talking as a professional impresario. I’m not judging anybody at all.
Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That’s what they do; that’s their living, that’s their pride, that’s their joy. They don’t achieve that because they happen to be human.
I don’t know about politics so much. I’m a professional athlete.
Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.
My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.
Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.
I’d gone professional when I was about seventeen.
I don’t actually feel multi-talented. I just feel that I’m in this business where we give ourselves 100 titles and gold statues. It’s like, lawyers aren’t like, ‘You’re incredible! You’re a professional arguer in front of the judge! You’re great at paperwork!’ No, you just get credit for one job.
I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.
I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I got were plays, but then I started making money doing voice-overs.
I have no interest in owning a football club; I don’t play golf; I don’t like horseracing and I’d rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.
I have the cliche ‘struggling actor’ story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn’t work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater.
You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter’s school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
I’d like to run a professional football team. I’d love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the ‘New York Times.’
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
Listen – we party, we have fun, we live life to the fullest. But we’re also professional, we also wake up every day and stay on time for our meetings and we also have a structure and a certain structure and a certain substance behind the brand. It’s not just luck.
I’ve always wanted to become a professional soccer player.
I wasn’t good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.
I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.
I started with Paul Le Guen. He told me to double up in positions if he was missing a left back or a midfielder. From that moment, it was clear in my mind that I would be a professional footballer, and I began working even faster to get there.
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.
‘Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind’ was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
In terms of being a professional, I want to be professional with everyone.
I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
I would love nothing more than to become a professional ice skater, but I would rather do it privately.
In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.
It’s not the easiest thing in the world to act with Harry – we are very close. I’m not saying it won’t ever happen again but it’s best to work with other people. There are no professional boundaries at which to stop when you act with a sibling.
I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you’re not yet professional. But for me, if you’re in a mainstream theater, you’re doing something real.
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can’t get into rap.
I remember going home one day and telling my brother that I was going to give up football because I was 17 and was too old. My brother said he wouldn’t let me. He got me my first pair of real boots and those were the boots I managed to become professional in.
Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I’d like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.
My personal life is lived as ‘me,’ but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become ‘someone else.’ That’s my job.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don’t make that distinction very much.
