I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.
If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?
I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.
Professional men run the business started by the courageous men.
I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.
To be a professional you have to act like one as well..
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
Home is where the heart is. That's what they always say. But where does home begin,If you have lost your way. Do you turn to family or neighbors you don't know? You heart may wonder far and wide until you learn to grow. You go outside and look around...
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.
If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin saying that I inspired her. I'm so humbled by that. I think that's amazing.
Once an athlete feels his coach does not believe in him resentment develops and everyone loses at that point.
As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much ...
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitpr...
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're each four years, and everybody wants to show their best performance.
We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.
I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.
