Little did I know that there’s nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes. – Bruce Forsyth
Karaoke isn’t fair when you’re a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I’m a professional funny guy. – Chris Rock
Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As a result, many professional investors think the government would repay the debt that Fannie Mae had issued if the company could not, although Fannie Mae explicitly says that its bonds do not carry a federal guarantee. – Alex Berenson
All those guys wanna be us. All the fighters wanna be in professional wrestling; I don’t care what they say. – Bill Goldberg
It’s very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything. – Caroline Wozniacki
I’m not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I’m an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
As a professional wrestler, it’s not my position to be the booker, to formulate a match, unless you’re asked to do that. – Bill Goldberg
There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents’ protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible. – Anatoly Chubais
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation. – Anthony Holden
I often joke that I’ve just become a professional schmoozer. Like, nobody cares how well I can rock climb anymore. It just has to do with how well I can schmooze. – Alex Honnold
I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional. – Andy Dick
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you’re professional or you’re not. – Barbara Hepworth
Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake. – Antony Gormley
I used to play – when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey. – B. B. King
Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works. – Carli Lloyd
Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don’t even have to go to a gym. – Anton du Beke
Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives. – Adrian Edmondson
I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that’s the way it’s got to be. At one point we’ve got to decide to get it right and we’ve got to be professional. – Alex Morrison
I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it’s just a different flavour, it’s a different sound, but I think both have their place. – Billy Sherwood
There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft. – Cass Sunstein