Jamie Carragher Quotes

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.

It is a sad day for football when a player about to enter his prime moves for financial reasons and nothing else.

Of course it's normal for people to say, 'Yeah, this player changed teams because of the money.' That could be the case sometimes, but after a certain level of success? No.

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?

There's money to be made, and I want mine.

Players must understand that if they go after more lucrative contracts, then they forfeit their chances of playing in the national team.

I got to the pinnacle of the sport for a reason and that's to make money. I didn't come here just to give handouts.

I don't want to look like I'm money-hungry.

They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.

Why would you give me so much money and not try to win? What on earth is the point of that? They have to be serious about winning going forward. There's no other logical explanation.

For the Robert Roode character, wrestling is kind of secondary, and money is his main priority.

I hope to play until I'm, like, 38 or something, and that's a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family's part.

We make choices every single day of our lives and those choices mean we must give up something in exchange for another. In economics it's called an 'opportunity cost.'

Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.

If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.

Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

The key word in profiteering is profit.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.