Carlos Vela Quotes

Football is a game of business. You don't work for free.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

I love the Irsay family, but I understand this is a business.

Football today means players stay less now than ever before and you have to accept that. As a manager, a big part of your business is doing far too much business that you don't want to do really.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.

In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.

I think, in accepting the amount of money that athletes make, I think that fans accept that now. It's the nature of the beast; that's the way it is, so they understand it. All, I think, fans have changed - because the price of tickets has gone up so much - that they feel a certain sense of entitlement when they go to a game.

I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.

I'm always hesitant to make any serious moves because you never know how the N.F.L. will treat you, you know?

I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

When you look at sports leagues today, they manage a lot of intellectual property, which means it takes you into a lot of different kinds of businesses.

I thought it was the coolest thing in the world to be in an NFL office.

A loan wasn't always my first option, but when I heard the Bundesliga and Hoffenheim was an option for me and working with the manager there, it was something I wanted to do.

The NFL is a business and I accept it for what it is.

We have seen that many teams, both in La Liga and the Premier League, have the economic capacity to steal a star from an important team.

It is always difficult to sign players even if you are a big club.

You can't win in any sport without heavily concentrating on revenue generation. You have to be relentless in that regard if you are going to be able to afford the kind of players you need to compete at the highest level.

You never know: there is a lot of movement in football. You can never predict where you're going to play.