Please, don’t call them amateurs Please, don’t call them amateurs Claudette Buttigieg Sunday, 18 July 2021, 09:20 Last update: about 13 hours ago What is an amateur? Strictly speaking, it is a person who does something purely out of love and not for financial gain You can achieve high standards and still be, in the proper sense, an amateur. Although in Malta we have a number of persons who work to a professional, expert standard in the fields of sports and the performing arts (for instance), the majority do not make a living out of it and are, therefore, technically “amateurs”. ADVERTISEMENT