It's sad when a MMA fighter talks to an NFL or NBA player about how much money they make. That's embarrassing. You tell them how much you make and they laugh.
I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.
The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.
I went to Villarreal for 30% less than I could have earned in Mexico.
The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.
I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
If I were President, … schoolteachers would be paid more than movie stars and basketball players.
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
I don't care about how much other actors get.
I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.
My salary for 'Splash' was $350,000. I got about $800,000 for 'Summer Rental.' So, yes, I thought, 'Well, here's a chance to get some furniture for the house and some clothes for the kids.'
If they're going to pay me like [Mike] Gallego, I'm going to play like Gallego.
Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.
The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?
When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
Depending on where you're at or the ownership you're working for, some of the college jobs may be better than some in the NFL.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.
