The professionals must set a good example.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
That's your dream, to play professional baseball. When you get the opportunity like that, getting drafted - especially by Oakland, a California team, pretty close to home - it was tempting. At the time, I just didn't think I was ready or mature enough mentally or physically to start pro ball.
Ever since I was a boy, I have wanted to be a professional footballer and to captain my country one day.
All I have ever wanted to do is be a professional footballer.
We're professional footballers, so we have to go out there and perform as best we can and try and get the results that we want.