Amateur Career
- 1993 and 1995 United States amateur Light Heavyweight champion.
- 1994 National Golden Gloves Light Heavyweight champion
- Won the Light Heavyweight bronze medal for the United States at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. His results were:
- Defeated Dmitry Vybornov (Russia) 5–2
- Defeated David Kowah (Sierra Leone) RSC 1 (2:43)
- Defeated Enrique Flores (Mexico) RSC 3 (1:54)
- Lost to Vassiliy Jirov (Kazakhstan) 9–15
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Famous quotes containing the words amateur and/or career:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)