Fedor Emelianenko Quotes

Even if you have a contract you can be sold.

I went with Atlantic because I got a lawyer to look at my contract and my contract was fire.

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

No pay, no Goldblum. That's it.

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

I'm hesitant anytime someone puts a contract in front of me that has two-year options.

People say what they want in interviews, but when they get a contract, they say other things.

When I review my contract, it is to make sure that I am not going to get in trouble or not paid. Then afterward, people say, 'Did you make sure they gave you a green room,' and I'm like, 'No, I didn't get any of the cool stuff.'

Nobody will write in your contract that you have the assurance to play.

This is the business of football and nothing is guaranteed to you as a player, coach or anybody else. They don't have to give you the money. They don't have to give you a longterm contract.

You can't sign just any contract.

I would never tie in creative with a talent's contract. To me, that is insanity. Creative needs change, talents evolve or not, and to be locked in to a talent having the ability to not run the plays that the team dictates is not smart business.

You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

Leaving Impact was a very difficult decision, as I had six months left on a very lucrative and talent-friendly contract. Anthem lived up to that contract and always treated me with the utmost respect as a businessman and a person.

A repeated problem with the Obama administration has been the lack of understanding that contracts only matter if they are enforceable - and if there is a party willing to do the enforcement.

In broadcasting, especially 'cause people are more public, it's hard to be like 'so what are you making?' Finding that information is huge when you're negotiating a contract. You wanna make sure that you're in the same ballpark.

Get a good lawyer because sometimes it's hard to understand what you might or might not be agreeing to.

In WCW, your future was determined by the time you signed the contract. I was the lowest-paid guy in the company at $75,000.

I definitely learned stuff like advancing a show, what percentage I should be paid, what's going be in a contract I'm going sign.

This is a pattern-bargaining industry, like railroads. You need to pay market to get a contract at all, and without contracts, you have a poor relationship with workers.

With the way I fight, the UFC's not stupid. For one, they probably know that they're don't have me forever.

Don't sign your publishing away.

For me, it's always been a financial kind of scenario. I was actually the first one who signed the 'exclusive to Ring of Honor' contract. I was the first guy who ever signed one of those contracts. That was tough for me because I had no one to talk to. I had no examples to go on. I was the guinea pig.

My deal with WCW was if I'd choose to show up, I was guaranteed a certain amount, but I'm not required to come to work for WCW.

If you offer a player a new contract, and a good contract, that means you want to keep the player.