That's why esports is so awesome: it's just like professional sports.
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
It is bizarre to see the NFL attacking an America that has treated it so well over the years. Taxpayers pay over 70 percent of the cost of stadiums. Our citizens pay more and more for tickets, and valuations of professional sports franchises have skyrocketed. Player compensation keeps growing.
That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.'
I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.
Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.
For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.
I've heard some writers say things like, 'Well, I'm a professional writer. I only start books I know I can finish.' I look at it maybe the other way: I only want to write books I'm not sure I can write.
Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.
Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.
The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.
