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For my money, Dan Hodge is the greatest amateur wrestler ever produced in the U.S.A.
I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.
When I was six, I joined an amateur club called VK Tielrode in Belgium where I lived.
I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.
I have always been an amateur history buff, and I've been fascinated by legal history.
Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.
From 1964 to 1968, I won many state, national and international amateur karate titles.
I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.
I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
Jerry Brisco, who is a WWE Hall of Famer, goes out and scouts all of the amateur wrestling.
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
As a child, I always thought about big screen and even played in a amateur theatrical studio.
That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.
I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
XYIENCE is a great brand, and they've also worked to help inspire my team of amateur fighters.
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that's where I was born. I've always wanted to wrestle.
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
You know what, I was one of the top 25 amateurs in the world. I had a pretty good college career.
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.
If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.
I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.
I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.
I joined an amateur drama group as a teenager, fell in love with theatre, and it totally changed my life.
I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.
I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.
I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star.
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
Glenda Jackson called me an amateur in 1976 when we were in a play, 'The White Devil.' I've never forgiven her.
I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.
All types of magic performance have a purpose. Even if it's an amateur who's trying out slight of hand on YouTube.
Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.
I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.