David Storey Quotes

It's different in the NFL because you're getting paid to get hit. In college, you're taking hits for someone else to make money.

Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

But in the NFL, you know you're not playing for the 'T' on the side of the helmet. You're not playing for the color of the Steelers. You're playing more because they're paying you to play and you have a family to take care of.

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn't anticipate. But I'm glad. I like playing for Cincinnati.

Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

I get paid to get hit in the head.

I can't make it doing anything else, the amount of money. Obviously, anybody can go to work and make money, but the paycheck I make boxing, I'm not going to make anywhere else.

We all sign up where you might get hurt. That's what makes this league a little bit different than any other in professional sports.

I did not choose Tottenham for the money. Believe me, I could've gone elsewhere to earn more, even in England.

I mean, football is a violent sport.

That's how the NFL is. It's a dangerous, violent game, and there's only so many opportunities, and only the best of the best play it.

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

The only reason I want to climb up the rankings - beating the champion and beating guys in the top five - those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That's the only reason why.

I got to the pinnacle of the sport for a reason and that's to make money. I didn't come here just to give handouts.

Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.

I never want to hurt a player but being physical is different. Body to body.

Football is a contact sport and sometimes is difficult to measure that.

You realize, as time goes on, there is a certain expectation now in 2018 where fans want to see cool, exciting, hard-hitting sports entertainment or hard-hitting pro wrestling, and there are ways to give them that without necessarily putting yourself in the hospital that night or not being able to move the next morning.

Any fighter, at the end of the day, that says it's not about the money is ridiculous. We wouldn't be training this hard, putting our bodies on the line, and torturing our bodies if there wasn't a payday at the end of the day.

I think I'm the best wide receiver in the NFL.