Michael Beasley Quotes

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

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

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.

I realized I was never going to be Lance Armstrong. And in biking, if you want to make money, you have to be the best.

Income inequality is not a bad thing. Income inequality is a good thing.

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

If it wasn't for finding out that my right leg could kick a ball really far, which is what I did, I am 100 percent certain that I would be attempting to be or would be a professional wrestler.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

It's not so long ago I was paying £250 a season to play. I don't think in my lifetime it will ever get to wage parity with the men, but we have made so many great strides already.

When you have a son in football like Anton, it will always be deemed as if he got the prop up and given the contract, no matter how hard he works. So much so that when he was offered a deal at Chelsea, I advised him not to take a professional contract.

Now astronomical wages are making it very difficult to take somebody who might not even have a transfer fee attached to them, because of the net value that they want and the net value that they're worth.

I don't know how you can be an All-American in this country and not be a good basketball player.

The money between the first pick and the 10th pick - that's a big difference! That's like a $10-million-dollar difference.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

We think Eli is taller and handsomer now that he's won the Super Bowl. Imagine what would've happened if [Jaws] won the Super Bowl.

People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion, is in the our relationship with money, and our acceptance of its power over ourselves and our society.

Wealth inequality has increased.

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.

It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.