Quotes About Pro

There is a pressure in this country that comes from being a boxer with an Olympic medal and then turning pro.

At Rizin, you can actually be a pro fighter. You can step it up. You can blast, you know. You'll be alright.

If I play a round of golf with a pro, it's with Bubba Watson.

My second pro fight, I fought on the Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins undercard.

My world, the world that I have grown up in, is very different. I have had intrusions from the outside since the day I was born because of my dad. Always wanting to talk to you. A lot of players only get that when they turn pro so the first 18 years of their life were the same as any other person's.

I was a needy person. I think most pro athletes are. We're all used to a lot of attention.

Most people won't play basketball with NBA players, because you have to be in the NBA, but you don't have to be a pro to play against pro gamers. There's a chance they could load in and play the same game as them.

It is a difficult decision, either to turn pro or stay amateur.

When you treat your career early on really crappy, you can't expect to be in a good position. That's just the way pro fighting is.

Six months before the end of my mission, I was dogged by the press to give an answer about turning pro. They were extremely persistent.

It's been a dream of mine to play in the States ever since college. Being able to play pro here is amazing.

After college I was like, Oh, I want to play pro,' but I didn't know exactly what that meant.

I think the thing that makes Indiana basketball special is that they have incredible teams, both college teams and pro teams, and they're all about grit.

It was a very long and hard decision. My dad kept telling me, 'You can always go to college, but you can't always go pro.' That made sense to me.

you should learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

To me, "terrorism" is to "authorized military bombing" what a "cult" is to a "religion"—the main difference seems to be that neither the cults nor the terrorists have gone pro yet.

If pro is the opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress?

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

The MGR Sivaji awards are organised by the PRO stalwarts in the industry whom I actually respect.

I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the redaction issue. But I see WikiLeaks as a publisher.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?