Player Earnings Quotes

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

I think it's fantastic that players can decide to go to China and earn more money.

(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.

I don't mind players earning money, but it should mean, at the same time, that the club is doing good.

I've always said, "You make a lot of money in Major League Baseball, and it's all guaranteed, so what do you have to lose by going all out?" .

Mark Emmert, the head of the NCAA, makes millions. Coaches today are making millions. Who's not making anything? I don't want to hear about they get scholarships. Yeah, they get scholarships all right, they earn those scholarships.

I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.

It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.

To be able to earn what Cristiano earns, I would have had to have been the best player at the World Cup or won the Ballon d'Or.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that players care about transfer fees. For a player, they do not care at all. They do not care if they move clubs for one million, 10 million, or 100 million Euros. That is just something a player leaves to his agent and the clubs.

I haven't played tennis since 2006, and tennis is one of those sports where if you don't play, you don't get paid.

It's unbelievable what the rewards are like with being a footballer, but I'm not stupid - I don't go around flaunting it.