Colby Covington Quotes

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

In WCW, your future was determined by the time you signed the contract. I was the lowest-paid guy in the company at $75,000.

I make, like, three or four times more when I don't fight than when I do fight. And, I'm one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic.

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

People always tell me the next stage of my career means moving to New York, but I never will. I don't care how that affects my career, and I think it's stupid that it would.

There are some people who have had no pay rises for a very long time, and, working in highly skilled and highly responsible roles and in the health services and education, they deserve to be properly remunerated.

If salary is your most important consideration, make sure you don't take too much time off beyond the allotted 12-14 weeks of maternity leave - and certainly don't leave altogether.

I don't care about how much other actors get.

It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.

A teacher works a lot harder than I do and her work is far more important, but she will never make the money that I do.

My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don't realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.

I want to negotiate what I'm worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, 'This is what I'm owed now. Pay me.' And then we can talk.

I make more money in a week than my father made in a year.

Whether it's salary or a promotion or a job, I think it's important for women to ask for what they think they deserve.

Nothing but respect to all the fighters that are in the UFC, but every single one of us wants to prove something. And you know, eventually, I want to prove myself in that lightweight division too.

Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?

If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.

I'm not going to fight unless it's for a belt. Nothing else matters but the belt.

Why don't I earn very much? I don't know; you'd have to ask my agent. Maybe I'm just not very bright!

The one time I get butterflies at my fights is during the ring walk, and to get to do that with my home crowd is special, emotional.

I'm proud of my Italian roots, and I've always believed that I would get the chance to fight for the belt.

You can't expect a woman who's holding down a part-time job to train for the biggest race in the world. She has to have a minimum wage, and I think it's something that is pretty crazy that we don't have that.

I don't care about the Strikeforce belt.

In sport, the money goes to the talent; it goes directly to the worker - unlike a bank, which sits in the middle of transactions and whose income bears no relation to any of the services it provides.

I'm not scared of anyone. I don't care whether you are a jiu-jitsu fighter or a wrestler or a stand-up fighter: I want to put myself against you, and I want to see who is better. And if you are the guy that is going to beat me, I'm going to take that loss like a man and go back, and I'll work on me self. That's how I look at fighting.