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)
“What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner’s job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)