Gareth Barry Quotes

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

It's incredible, ridiculous really, isn't it? You realise you can make more money on the golf tour in one week than some people make in a lifetime.

We're not all Kim Kardashian. We can't have $15,000 from head to toe every single day.

The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.

I enjoyed my time in the Premier League and in Qatar.

It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but listen, we are a small minority of lucky players. We have obviously worked hard for this, but we are lucky enough to have the ability to play in the Premier League.

I see guys who can't make 10 percent of what I make, and yet they have four Bentleys, three houses, and four bodyguards.

A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.

I was one of the first foreign players coming in to the Premier League.

I've been the captain of a Premier League club, and I've coached some of the best players in the world.

The truth is it's like a dream for me to play for a club like Manchester City and fight for titles and everything that comes with that.

I really want to play in Chelsea.

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.

I have said in the past that I would be happy to see out my career at Chelsea. I moved here to play in the best league in the world with one of the strongest teams.

Workers' disillusionment is deepened by the knowledge that, as their average wages grow slowly or stagnate, the very wealthy are growing significantly wealthier.

I remember being a young boy in Poland, watching David Seaman, Thierry Henry, Dennis Berkamp and others play for Arsenal. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would get a chance to play for the club I supported as a little kid.

I'm absolutely enjoying the Premier League, as you can imagine. I knew it was going to be tough. It's the best league in the world and you are up against players who have been in it for years so they know it inside out.

I had three very successful years in Germany with Borussia Dortmund, but I had the opportunity to move to one of the biggest clubs in the highest-profile league in the world.

The UFC makes 80, and athletes make 20. That's what happens. That's the real story.

To have a chance at a big club, if it goes well and the club is happy and I am happy, then I can definitely see a longer-term future in Italy.

I'd like to play in English football, especially for Manchester United.

It is a privilege to be part of this Chelsea squad and the Chelsea family, at one of the most historic clubs in the Premier League.

Just because footballers earn a lot of money, it doesn't mean we're not human.

The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.