Professional Quotes

The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.

There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.

Warner Bros., where I spent pretty much most of my professional life, they continue to make a lot of movies but so many of the studios are pulling back.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.

When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.

Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.

The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

Jesse Ventura took American politics and raised it to the level of professional wrestling.

Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.

It is all in the way of professional experience.

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.

I'm one of those people who just doesn't plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.

Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible.

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success.

I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to the good stuff.

We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living

I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.

I'm a Mormon. I don't do a lot of the off-the-field activities that athletes are known to do. And I guess I've created a world that is unlike the typical world of a professional athlete.