Greg Rutherford Quotes

Tattooed across NASCAR drivers' jumpsuits and over every square inch of their cars are the logos of the companies sponsoring the teams, underwriting the costs, paying their salaries. Everyone can see who the drivers represent and who is footing the bill.

A lot of people don't know the USOC is not government funded and they are always looking for support from sponsors.

Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support.

All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.

The game needs to be funded by sponsors, by members, by broadcasters. There needs to be a commercial relationship between the FFA and the people who supply the money so it is a natural alliance. Sport is not a charity.

I have plenty of sponsors, and I'm the first American that Pretorian has sponsored.

There was a time when I never would have considered, ever, doing television commercials for records. I would never do that. That was something that you did for K-Mart.

I was a welder for about three or four months, and I was lucky enough to get out of it because there was a guy who wanted to support me and pay for my racing.

If I don't get a race deal then I expect to be a test driver for a top team.

Clubs shouldn't be counting on an owner just as a benefactor.

The reality of it is, we have to have an enormous amount of corporate support to fund 43 race teams and all the things that go on. So there are always going to be brands that may not be ones that you would choose, but that are willing to make a significant investment.

Before my accident I had to fund my racing through finding sponsors myself so I am use to it. Obviously at that point I was 15 or 16, knocking on business's doors going 'I am a racing driver, a British champion and I want to be in Formula 1, will you give me an amount so I represent your brand'.

Sponsoring is very important for Formula One and, if a driver can help with it, it's a help.

It's all very well to talk about how it would be great to have a woman driver, a woman with sponsors and marketing, that's all great but to get into that drive you have to perform. That's what I realized early on when I got into Formula One.

I don't have a sponsor or come from an exotic country where I can bring tonnes of money.

As of myself, I work with Heineken, who is a huge sponsor that enables us to get inside a kind of market that would be very hard to get into without its help.

I wanted to be a professional motor racer. It was only due to lack of sponsors that I could not do it.

I've not received any major sponsorship deals or anything else.

I never had the help of money in the background - it could be the cherry on the top a little bit - whereas some others had that to offer.

My challenge is that because I am not self-funding... I'm going out leaning on the generosity of everyday folks.

I've had a lot of support from back home, starting way back in karting and since then I have been lucky to have been supported by some great Finnish companies.