I’d always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn’t be professional. – Gaylord Perry
Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries. – Hanna Rosin
Let’s face it, who among us wouldn’t take a pill or potion that would make us better at our job? Goodness knows, we abuse substances for just about everything in our personal lives; why not in our professional lives as well? – Graydon Carter
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. – Gunther Schuller
We’re the only dance in town. We don’t compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar. – Hayden Fry
Professional cinema image-taking should integrate, serve, interest, and enhance the story. I judge cinematography not just for a story well told but for what the story is. – Haskell Wexler
I’d like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, ‘O.K., you can’t interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.’ – Henry Rollins
I’ve been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. – Graham Joyce
I’m a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That’s what I’ve done in my career, one that’s culminated in – at least to this point – playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That’s the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more. – Harold Hamm
It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar. – Greg LeMond
Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another. – Harbhajan Singh
As a professional journalist, I’ve been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one thing I’ve learned from all those interviews is that I am always going to be surprised. – Hector Tobar
I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones. – Helen Mirren
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. – Gunther Schuller
Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem. – Hanna Rosin
I worked at the golf course, and I always had dreams and aspirations of being a professional golfer. – Graham DeLaet
Philadelphia’s a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley. – Gardner Dozois
As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend becomes involved in a major story that you feel you must cover. – Graydon Carter
January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I’ve been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ and a path to a professional comedy career. – Hari Kondabolu
I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional. – Harold Larwood
Nick Kyrgios, if you don’t want to be a professional tennis player, do something else. – John McEnroe
Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting – if you have another outlet. – John Gregory Dunne
When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be. – Jimmy Fallon
As a professional climber, that’s the question you always get: Why, why, why? It’s an ineffable thing; you can’t describe it. – Jimmy Chin
