The difference between ameteur and pro athletes is simple. You become a pro by winning (and accepting) a prize or prize money for your performance.
Example: I placed in a local race and was awarded a $10 gift card to a local Playa bowl. Therefore, I am a pro runner.
Carry on.
really idiot? What do you do for a living. Would you consider yourself a professional Walmart greeter or just an amateur? if you can make a living off of it then you're pro. If you're within top 5 of the coddled, oxygen tent, lab rat American GOAT then I think you can consider yourself pro.
derp wrote:
If you're within top 5 of the coddled, oxygen tent, lab rat American GOAT then I think you can consider yourself pro.
Yet not within 5 minutes, Ty? Isn't that over a full mile?
derp wrote:
really idiot? What do you do for a living. Would you consider yourself a professional Walmart greeter or just an amateur? if you can make a living off of it then you're pro. If you're within top 5 of the coddled, oxygen tent, lab rat American GOAT then I think you can consider yourself pro.
Dear Ameteur,
We pro athletes don’t only support ourselves through prize money. Hope this helps.
A Pro
LetsDrink wrote:
psyentist wrote:
This dude is the 5th fastest US male in the last couple years? I think he's legit.
And he ran a 2:12 in what, altras? lol imagine if he ran in 4%. I'd be surprised if he didn't since he's got a very legit shot at making the olympic team.
Of course you do, Ty. Tell you Mom I said what up, k?
Mom jokes cute, do you still laugh when you say pee pee and poo poo too? Sssh the adults are talking.
McCandless has never been or ever will be that fast but he’s a hustler and seems to have made his dream a reality. Power to the dude.
If your income from running is less than your outlay then you're a fun runner, period.
Never have lives less lived been more chronicled. wrote:
If your income from running is less than your outlay then you're a fun runner, period.
Not true. Basketball players go broke a year or two after leaving the sport because their spending habits are horrid. That fact doesn't take away their pro status. It just shows they are stupid. Anyone who makes money or gets a prize with monetary value is a professional athlete.
I'm late to the game, but I'd say you're a pro at something if the government makes you pay taxes for your earnings doing that thing. It's your profession or one of your professions. Just like a professional actor may be a professional musician and potentially many other things.
Taxes Maybe wrote:
I'm late to the game, but I'd say you're a pro at something if the government makes you pay taxes for your earnings doing that thing. It's your profession or one of your professions. Just like a professional actor may be a professional musician and potentially many other things.
Not true. Amateur athletes lose their status if they accept prize money of any amount. Taxes have nothing to do with it. Therefore, any prize amount earned by an athlete turns them pro.
Actual Pro chiming in wrote:
Never have lives less lived been more chronicled. wrote:
If your income from running is less than your outlay then you're a fun runner, period.
Not true. Basketball players go broke a year or two after leaving the sport because their spending habits are horrid. That fact doesn't take away their pro status. It just shows they are stupid. Anyone who makes money or gets a prize with monetary value is a professional athlete.
Doesn't apply. Different sports, completely different scenarios. NBAers and true pro sports athletes don't pay for gear to train for and compete in their sport, don't pay for travel to compete, never pay to enter a competition. Going broke after leaving the sport has to do with spending on anything else.
Actual Pro chiming in wrote:
Taxes Maybe wrote:
I'm late to the game, but I'd say you're a pro at something if the government makes you pay taxes for your earnings doing that thing. It's your profession or one of your professions. Just like a professional actor may be a professional musician and potentially many other things.
Not true. Amateur athletes lose their status if they accept prize money of any amount. Taxes have nothing to do with it. Therefore, any prize amount earned by an athlete turns them pro.
Paying your kid for cutting the grass doesn't make him a professional landscaper. If you put "pro runner" on your resumé because you won a gift certificate to a restaurant or got free Brooks shoes for a couple years then you're a nutter.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
Actual Pro chiming in wrote:
Not true. Amateur athletes lose their status if they accept prize money of any amount. Taxes have nothing to do with it. Therefore, any prize amount earned by an athlete turns them pro.
Paying your kid for cutting the grass doesn't make him a professional landscaper. If you put "pro runner" on your resumé because you won a gift certificate to a restaurant or got free Brooks shoes for a couple years then you're a nutter.
Paying your child might not meet your criteria for a “professional” landscaper, but if someone else pays him, it sure does.
Never have lives less lived been more chronicled. wrote:
Actual Pro chiming in wrote:
Not true. Basketball players go broke a year or two after leaving the sport because their spending habits are horrid. That fact doesn't take away their pro status. It just shows they are stupid. Anyone who makes money or gets a prize with monetary value is a professional athlete.
Doesn't apply. Different sports, completely different scenarios. NBAers and true pro sports athletes don't pay for gear to train for and compete in their sport, don't pay for travel to compete, never pay to enter a competition. Going broke after leaving the sport has to do with spending on anything else.
Your argument makes no sense. It doesn’t matter what sport you’re competing in. And who do you think pays for up and coming pro athletes’ training, gear, etc. Stop being a hater.
A Pro
Okay, I see what you're doing now…