Tim Wakefield Quotes

I love representing WWE, like, with Make-A-Wish, Be a STAR, Special Olympics.

Part of our job as quote-unquote 'celebrities' is that we can gather people around things that are important. I think it should be a requisite - there should be a clause in the contract that you have to give back.

For us, my wife and I and all of my partners believe that corporations have to be corporate citizens, and individuals who benefit from them, or who have built them, need to give back.

As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can.

I would never want to take TOMS or myself into an issues debate. That's not what we're about. We're about helping people.

There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

A lot of people know about the power of the WWE brand. We're in 145 countries in 30 different languages. We reach about 650 million households worldwide on a global weekly basis. But what they don't know about WWE is that we use all of that power to give back to the community through events like Hurricane Sandy Relief.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

For us, giving back is not an extracurricular activity.

I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

I have started up the Jordan Spieth Family Foundation. My little sister has special needs, so I started out trying to help kids with special needs. We have moved on to military now and a third pillar in junior golf, trying to help grow it back home.

Over the years, we have gone beyond our businesses to take up philanthropic projects in diverse areas - from education to health care to skilling.

When I decided to retire I thought I should align myself with a charity that can use my high profile.

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them.

With TOMS, I found a way to create sustainable giving and consistently help those who are in need.

I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities.

One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.

New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.

I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place.

The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big believer in the Silicon Valley religion of the power of markets. But I also believe in our obligation to give back, and to give back in the way we do business, to create more value than we capture for ourselves.

If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.