Jose Reyes Quotes

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

Baseball has all the money.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

You realize it's a business and that teams are going to do what's best for them. That's how it is. That's what we sign up for as a Major League Baseball player.

We need a system where all of our teams have the opportunity to compete and to make a few dollars. That's not a bad desire for collective bargaining for a sports league, and it's great for our fans.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.

The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.

A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.

When you play in the NFL now the teams are very, very equal.

Every player looks forward to free agency.

The NFL is the only sport where you can be on a team five years, and your contract's not guaranteed. You can go through the whole process of training camp, and then as soon as it's the season, it's a week-to-week job, and they can cut you at any moment, or you can get hurt at any moment. It's not like that in other sports.

The new CBA is hurting the league. It's hurting quarterback play.

Free agency is free agency. I love when NBA players get paid.

Just because you go to free agency doesn't mean you don't want to be somewhere. It's just a part of the business.

Everybody - come on - everybody is going to get traded at some point.

I think the league is going to be changing because there's so much money that teams have. And they can spend so much.

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.

The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.