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There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.

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.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

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.

Every artist was first an amateur.

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.

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.

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.