Jonathan Agnew Quotes

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.

Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

Franchise cricket is here to stay because of the money.

If cricket can be so glamorous and lucrative, I don't see why wrestling should lag behind.

There are big tournaments going on around the world, and some of them you cannot ignore because, financially, they make a huge difference in our lives.

Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.

Sports is a huge entertainment now, and we need to provide that entertainment for the fans because that's what they're looking for.

Whether it's NASCAR or whether it's football, or whether it's the NBA, any time something spills over to the point where somebody makes a WWE reference, I always think it's a good thing.

Sports entertainment in general, it's a very competitive business.

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

You don't hear a film director saying 'Money mustn't go out of the industry' to actors. You don't hear a concert promoter saying 'We must make sure that money doesn't go out of our industry' to Elton John. Some people in football seem to think, 'Never mind the players, let's get on with the game.'

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.

Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.

I have to admit, between the Seahawks games and the Blazer games and playoffs games, we're talking about close to 100 games a year, so I don't really follow other sports a lot.

I always watch NHL, NBA, NFL games and don't miss tennis and golf.

I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.

Group events like cricket, football and kabaddi have private leagues, which are all being played for money. There are no such events in athletics. Everything is run by the government bodies, there's less money involved in our game, and we are not even paid as well as people in other sports.

You can focus on the ranking events but I do miss the Premier League because it's massive.

Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of being paid like NBA, NFL and soccer and baseball athletes. They have that cushion where they can kind of hang out. Even the guys on the bench. But for us, we don't fight, we don't get paid and that's the scary reality to it all.

I'm the football manager of Newcastle, which is owned by Mike Ashley.