Amari Cooper Quotes

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

In the face of a big offer, no player is not for sale.

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

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

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

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

Every player looks forward to free agency.

Look at all of the pitchers getting six- and seven-year deals at 30, 31, and 32. You see what's going on and the money that's out there. You'd be a fool not to try to benefit from that, or at least try to get what you feel you're worth.

I want to earn a contract. I don't want a contract because in the next year I'm a free agent, so they might look to tie me down.

Signing bonus? Just give me a contract. I'll sign for free.

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

I've never had a huge contract.

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'

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

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.

Valuations are actually quite simple to grasp. A company is only worth what two acquirers are willing to pay for it. Don't you just need to find that one buyer? If there is only one potential company interested in buying your startup, chances are you won't be hearing the word 'billion' in the offer.

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

I'm not very good with the numbers and details and the language of contracts. I just want to play football.

The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.

We know the English market is quite high and I think that sometimes puts clubs off. I think there is a lot of hype around the Premier League.

When the club offers you the job, they say what the club expects from you. If the club says to you, 'I want you to win the Champions League, the Premier League, the Carabao Cup,' you say, 'OK, you want to win this and this and this? Can you give me this and this and this?'