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I'm an amateur.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

I felt I could play in maybe a dozen tournaments a year as an amateur.

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.

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.