Luol Deng Quotes

Football players value job security and stability as much anybody else.

I love it. In the NFL, you win or you lose, and the money still shows up.

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

I'm very happy to have been a one-club man, but I wouldn't shoot down guys who have gone off and played in multiple clubs either because, essentially, it is an earning that people are after.

I want a regular pay cheque.

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

I don't think bonuses are always bad.

You've got to ask for more money.

Price doesn't make deals, and salary doesn't control your career.

If Milan agrees to let me go, and if there's an agreement between the clubs, I would love to play for Madrid.

It doesn't matter if a footballer is earning £100,000 a week or £1,000 a week the first thing you need to do is work hard for your team.

Fans saying a player is overpaid doesn't bother a player. What bothers an injured player is watching your competitors grow.

It's just like any athlete, we all want a new contract. But I'm not going to stress over it. It's not the end of the world if I don't get it. If I get it, that's good.

The board gets upset because I won't take a raise, but I've got plenty of money.

I always tell guys to get paid what you are worth and know what you are worth so that if you are worth it, you will get that number.

The contract stuff will work itself out. If we keep winning, those kinds of things all work themselves out in time.

Despite some of the stories that have gone around, I've never had a big, flouncey strop about how much I'm paid. Considering I have a pretty interesting life out of making telly, I'm really paid quite well for it. So I'm not complaining.

I never asked to be the highest paid player in sports.

The 49ers drafted me assuming I wanted to play more than one year. At the time, I did, too. Things changed. They didn't deserve to be undercut. And I didn't want that to happen.

Players earn their wages, their livelihoods, and their right to compete to win things out on the pitch and not off it.

People often ask me if I can justify the amount I earn, and I say I get paid that much because someone thinks it is worth their while to pay me that much, and if I they didn't they'd soon stop. That said, no one's more surprised at the money thing than me.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.