Contract Disputes Quotes

You can enforce a contract in China, but not through the legal route. You have to put pressure on in various ways.

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.

After 12 years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold regardless of my wishes.

Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill.

Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.

Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.

You don't want to get to the point where you play out your contract and you get to those complicated situations where they can put the franchise tag on you and things like that.

The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.

I guess when you get paid over 100 million dollars by one team, it's kind of easy to point the finger at other guys and try to hate on them for trying to get another contract.

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

I've always wanted to do acting. The biggest thing I ever did was 'The Dirty Dozen.' My contract was for three months, but the picture was taking longer to make than they thought it would. I stayed for seven months, and Frank Sinatra told me to leave. He said the public is very fickle and that they'll forget you.

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.

The only way we protect ourselves, the only way a player gets what he wants is by holding out.

There were doubts when I got drafted. I've seen plenty of articles and things, like that I probably wouldn't be an elite point guard. I wanted to prove people wrong. And when I got my first contract, they said I was overpaid. I proved them wrong again.

Here's a guy who says he's a great businessman. But it seems like a lot of Trump's business is built around stiffing small businesses and workers out of what he owes them, work they've done. He thinks that's cute or smart or funny to basically not pay somebody who's done work for him and say go ahead and sue me because I've got more money than you and you can't do anything about it.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

Being traded a couple times - and I've been traded after winning Rookie of the Year - is out of your control.

I never went to the Sonics and asked for more money. I didn't ask for another dollar.

When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

While I was working for the WWE in 2013 and 2014, TV deals had come to me, movie deals had come to me, sponsorship deals had come to me, and they were all turned down by WWE because they would involve me being taken away from their shows.

The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it.