Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.

I was lucky to get a professional contract. I wasn't that sort of talent that is considered to be a professional player.

Brazilian boys as young as 14 and 15 are now based in Europe. They spend their best years in Europe and come back to Brazil when they are past their prime. This has destroyed local clubs and championships.

I had more offers in football than baseball.

The tough part is when someone asks you to take a pay cut. I don't think that makes sense for a lot of players.

We need to understand that the revenue which we get is through men's cricket.

Many Asian players have seen they can play in Europe at a high level.

In any economy, the entire population is supported by the part of it that is working. All other things being equal, it thus follows that the most attractive acquisition a society can have is a young adult, whose childhood and education has already been paid for, but whose entire working life still lies ahead.

It is bizarre to see the NFL attacking an America that has treated it so well over the years. Taxpayers pay over 70 percent of the cost of stadiums. Our citizens pay more and more for tickets, and valuations of professional sports franchises have skyrocketed. Player compensation keeps growing.

When you think about it, we sold about 120 million records, which relates to about £1.2 billion in the U.K. economy. We've seen very little of that.

I've been in the Premier League for 10 years, more, and the money I've been paid is phenomenal compared to your average, everyday working man.

The N.C.A.A. is a multibillion-dollar business built on the talents of players who are often unqualified for or uninterested in being students and who benefit materially from the system only if they are among the few who turn professional.

People say values are expensive, but I say they create economic value.

Baseball, in my opinion, would be a lot better if you could just make the same salary as everybody else in the world, and you don't deal with any of the other stuff. But that's not how it is. The main thing is I want to pitch against the best players in the world, and you can't do that playing in a pickup baseball league in your town.

If you look at why people are paid to do things, it's because they're creating a good or delivering a service that's valuable to somebody. There's just as much potential for that in these virtual environments as there is in the real world.

I think it's a good match, Dutch players playing in England.

It is a sad day for football when a player about to enter his prime moves for financial reasons and nothing else.

If you're at the top of the game, you're earning money. But compared to other sports, like tennis, you're earning peanuts.

Football was always a dream, but a distant dream until when I was about to go to university. I'd had a couple of trials, but it wasn't a realistic dream, it was a kid's dream.

While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world.

Nowhere is the same as England and that's why so many players want to come over here. That is why I would like to finish my career over here.

I think the league is going to be changing because there's so much money that teams have. And they can spend so much.