Best Amateur Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Guys with fathers involved get started younger than those who didn't have fathers taking them to the gym every day from when they were really young kids. They get born into it; they have 300, 400 amateur fights - and let me tell you, if you haven't learned to fight after 300 amateur fights, you're never gonna learn.”

“I had 14 amateur fights, and I went out there and knocked a lot of them out. Trainingwise, we would pretty much just spar.”

“While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet Union turned into a way of life. Literally.”

“I lost an amateur fight where it was supposed to be my last amateur fight before going pro and people were like, 'Oh, you think you're going to make this? You just got knocked out as an amateur?' And I went on to win 13 fights straight and become a world champion, the best in the world.”

“I won the biggest amateur contest when I was 10, and I was into X Games the next year. And then I was in a 'Tony Hawk' game the next year!”

“International Amateur Atheletic Federation had selected me in 1985 and 1986 as one of the best eight athletes in the world.”

“Lara and I both had success in the amateurs, and we have continued to have successful professional careers.”

“Lara always tells people that he beat me in the amateurs. I lost to him in international competition when I was just 17 years old. In that fight, he ran around as usual. I thought I had really won that fight.”

“Most of the time I got knockouts in my amateur fights.”

“When it comes to wrestling, judo and boxing they are at a good level. They can compete in an international level. On the amateur level it is extremely high. Transitioning to MMA for them would be easy. I think we will see a lot more Cubans in MMA as it gets easier for them to complete.”

“I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a psychological approach, I guess.”

“I wanted to show people the sweet science I have, from my amateur background.”

“When I was six, I joined an amateur club called VK Tielrode in Belgium where I lived.”

“For the majority of my amateur boxing career, I was the underdog weirdly enough and that served me well.”

“You see guys in amateur contest who are much better conditioned than the professionals. To me the professionals should be better. Just because they are bigger, it doesn't mean they are better.”

“Me and Bellew, we started off in the same amateur gym together.”

“In the amateurs we fought four or five times a week so we always had different opponents.”

“Talking to my trainer Eric Turner like my second or third amateur fight, I'm like how far can I make it? He said you can be UFC champ. Ever since then that's all I needed.”

“I consider myself an amateur antiquarian book collector.”

“I believe Masvidal is an amateur.”

“I remember what a loss in 2006 felt like as an amateur.”

“Years of watching 'Casualty,' 'House' and 'ER' have made me into an enthusiastic, amateur doctor.”

“To be classed as Britain's best amateur baker was something I never envisaged; but to be able to have such an accolade in my one true passion is absolutely incredible.”

“I've been privy to many athletic environments, both amateur and professional.”

“I owe a great debt to what we call the amateur theater.”

“Shooting is an amateur sport, but everybody does it professionally.”

“I fought Culcay as an amateur in the 2007 world championships, so we have some history together in the ring.”

“Just because you are a good amateur, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good professional.”

“People don't usually have long careers as heavyweights because they mature into the role. Look at amateur wrestling, you don't usually see guys go to heavyweight as freshman. I was just blessed that even though I wasn't as big as some of the other guys, I was able to step in right away at heavyweight.”

“The story of 'Punyakoti' is real-intense. It has a lot of layers and is not as simple as the stuff I wrote when I was an amateur.”

“There were two drama societies in Enniskillen when I was growing up, St. Michaels and the Enniskillen Amateur Dramatic Society, and I had the pleasure of working with them both.”

“In Japan, when I went there, there was no professionalism at all. But the biggest advantage was that everyone was united and wanted to progress from amateur football to professional.”

“There's not a lot of things to look out for in amateur boxing. Once the headgear comes off, once the 10-ounce gloves come on and you're fighting men and you're doing all these different things, that's where the experience comes.”

“There's a particularly British way of going about things that I rather like, which is very different to the American way. It comes out of the amateur rep tradition of actors thinking: 'Well, I'm only 26, but I'll put on a beard and have a go at King Lear.'”

“XYIENCE is a great brand, and they've also worked to help inspire my team of amateur fighters.”

“When one is small, one always looks up at someone. To me, it was my father, Antonio, a former amateur football player. He was a striker of great talent. He has always been a role-model.”

“I am merely an amateur; being referred as a lyricist is a far fetched dream for me, and I feel I don't entirely deserve it yet.”

“I had a lot of rematches in the amateurs. You don't always know what an opponent's going to do. I do find that I beat them more easily second time around.”

“My dad was a wrestler in high school. He was really good and had a great amateur background, but it was always his dream to be in the WWE.”

“There is an age limit of 35 on amateur boxing. They should consider putting an age limit on professional boxing.”

“I lost as amateur, I lost a bunch of times as a wrestler, and you always come back.”

“We feel so lucky. We were amateur quizzers but now we get to do it for a living. So there's no way any of us Chasers would walk out.”

“You know what, I was one of the top 25 amateurs in the world. I had a pretty good college career.”

“For my money, Dan Hodge is the greatest amateur wrestler ever produced in the U.S.A.”

“You know, criticism began as the province of amateurs, of wealthy men who liked the arts.”

“Once you're an amateur wrestler, you're always an amateur wrestler.”

“My dad's been giving me Snickers since I was six years old. Since I first turned amateur, my dad's been giving it to me.”

“In my pro and amateur fights I've always mentioned Mexico.”

“I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a pro.”

“I've won junior titles, ABA titles and boxed for England all over the world against future Olympic champions as an amateur - and then beat world-class fighters as a professional.”

“I believe amateur boxing training should be available in schools. Not for all, but for those who want to.”

“I joined an amateur drama group as a teenager, fell in love with theatre, and it totally changed my life.”

“I have always been an amateur history buff, and I've been fascinated by legal history.”

“I was raised by the last of the Gorgeous George era. You don't let somebody come from some other business, walk in your business, make a fool of ya and go back into his business and laugh at ya. So if you watch Wrestlemania the very first one, I was the general and here was the rule: don't let Mr. T throw a punch; keep it strictly amateur with him.”

“People ask me if I'm going to open a school. Why not? I think I should. Maybe not a typical school where anyone can come but with young fighters definitely one day. I don't have the nerves for amateurs.”

“I'm really considering getting into amateur wrestling and getting into more tournaments. I'm looking into going to do some Jiu-Jitsu tournaments. I'm looking into everything.”

“I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.”

“I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.”

“The first movie I produced was a movie that Joel Schumacher wrote and directed called 'Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill.'”

“What's very funny is when you see amateurs filming something, they do some things no professionals would dare to do. They instinctively do things that are very avant-garde and useful.”

“As a child, I always thought about big screen and even played in a amateur theatrical studio.”

“I'm very, very amateur, which is funny because I'm not in the amateur leagues.”

“I was a big fan of amateur wrestling, and I loved it and dedicated my whole life to it for 20-something years, and it's not really a glory-getting sport.”

“There's this whole underground world of amateur television production.”

“I trained for about a year before I had my first amateur fight. I won by knockout, and then, for my second fight, the guy didn't even show up.”

“I'm obsessed with karaoke, but I don't like to sing. I just like to go and watch amateur singers.”

“I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.”

“With amateur boxing, you're just entered into a competition. And to be the best, you've got to beat the best. You're not waiting around to get these fights organised.”

“Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.”

“I started playing golf after a broken knee led me to quit my career as an elite gymnast. It wasn't long before I became one of the world's top-ranked amateur players.”

“It came like a natural thing for me, and I liked it. That's how my amateur career started. But again, no interest in a future in boxing. I just thought it was like a little pastime, something to do.”

“Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of that, they became informed amateurs. We've lost that.”

“I relate everything to amateur wrestling, including the way I watch basketball and the way I watch football. My brain thinks as an amateur wrestler. That's who I am.”

“I came from amateur football.”

“At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego.”

“I was writing stand up comedy for TV for around 5 years and just wanted to attempt it myself. Vir Das started an amateur comedians' night in Bombay in 2009 and I went for the very first one. It was a competition and I won the first prize.”

“Queens Park was amateur, so you do not get paid. You need to make a living, and for the first few years, when I was in the youth side, it was fine because I was still at school.”

“The thing that people don't know about me - I actually boxed amateur for a few years.”

“I was doing it the amateur way, doing everything myself till 'Naalaya Iyakunar.' They said, 'You need crew members'; they insisted on having proper production values. So I learnt a lot about making films for that show.”

“I became the European amateur champion in Liverpool back in 2008. I visited the Beatles museum, and after the final, I went to a drum and bass disco.”

“As an amateur, there are three rounds, and you have to give it all you have, throw as many punches as you can.”

“I had 33 kickboxing fights, 37 MMA fights, plus 44 amateur boxing fights, which most of them were international. I will keep fighting as long as I feel good, but I will repeat once more, any fight could be the last one.”

“I always said as an amateur that I'd want to one day fight and beat Kindelan because he was the best out there.”

“My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.”

“I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the city.”

“The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.”

“For amateur golfers, I think one of the biggest mistakes is to model their play on professionals.”

“If there was no fame involved and very minimal money - which is the case for most actors - I'd still be doing it. If I wasn't good enough to be a professional, I'd be an amateur actor.”

“A friend of mine once, when I was 11 years old, mentioned that there was a youth theater, a local amateur youth theater nearby where young people could go every Sunday. And that's where it began, really.”

“I started doing little amateur nights at the comedy club that was right next to the restaurant that I waitressed in when I was in university. I was probably 22 years old. I didn't do it with any intention of making a career out of it; I had just always valued comedy.”

“We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet.”

“In the beginning, when you're acting in amateur theater and off-Broadway, it was unheard of that anyone else would get your costume. And it was important to get a good costume. You put time into that.”

“It's ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there's a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.”

“I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.”

“The AAC is the best amateur event in the region and the most important tournament to me every year.”

“My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.”

“I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.”

“I'm an amateur.”

“I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.”

“I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.”