Quotes About Professionalism

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while

It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women

Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.

No one wants to be the creator with the reputation for bad mouthing sponsors!

I'm probably infuriating to work with, particularly in 'Offspring,' because I'm in pretty much every scene so I need the other actors around me to be able to pull of the spontaneity of that character.

Vetrimaaran expects his actors to be spontaneous. Since he mostly prefers shooting in live locations, you have to be prepared for everything when you work with him.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.

Guys like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business.

I have nothing against nobody in the UFC. This is a sport for me.

I played a sport for most of my adult life that required me to work on two of the biggest holidays in America, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I think that money has changed my sport.

Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

Sports federations must try to be professional in trying to market their sport.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

I love and respect my sport, but I am not a bad guy. First, I am a sportsman.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.

I'll fight you, and I'll have respect at the end. If you win, I have respect; if I win, I expect respect, Ray Mercer, man, I don't want to mention this guy's name anymore. He gets no respect from me. He was not professional, and he showed poor sportsmanship.

I never prepare. I think that's completely overrated. It's a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line. So I don't really believe in preparation.

You can't take a single day for granted in the National Football League. Every single day, you need to earn your spot on the roster.

The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.

It's a competitive business, and everybody wants to be the best. And when there's a new guy coming in, and there's buzz about him, 'Oh, he was a pro football player,' you instantly have people that don't like you because they're afraid you're going to take their spot.