Shannon Briggs Quotes

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Money trumps peace sometimes. There are a lot of very powerful commercial interests around the world.

If you are going to be a part of this global market, you had better be able to defend yourself from this market.

Nike is Nike. Adidas is Adidas. I've played in their circuits and stuff like that, but now it's a business. You don't want just product. You're not a kid anymore. You're really trying to get bank. That's about it.

The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.

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.

The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.

Spending big money does not mean you win all the silverware.

You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.

Success: When you make more money than the rest of us, it hurts our feelings.

I'd rather play for the Yankees. You get more money.

If you want to go around saying that giving women the vote wrecked the country and still be taken seriously, it helps to be handing out $100 bills.

When you make people a lot of money, it gives you leverage in Hollywood.

When United wanted me, I was like a horse with blinkers on. I was not interested in anyone else. City offered more money, but the team was weaker, and their history couldn't compete with United.

The only thing that matters in WWE is winning and getting paid.

When there's millions of dollars at stake, everybody is going to look for an advantage.

Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.

A tournament pays me to show up because the fans want to see me and I move the needle at the box office? That's amazing. It's good for tennis, good for me and good for the event. If a sponsor wants to pay to put their company name on my shirt because they think I'm a strong ambassador for their brand? Heck yes.

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

I called my show 'Power' because, for me, the whole series is about the way my main character, Ghost, is power-less over his circumstances, even though he has almost endless access to money and guns.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

I'm a prize fighter. Titles don't pay bills. I fight for money. I'm making money. They're making money. Everybody's making money. That's what this is all about.

I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.