Mark Cuban Quotes

A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

It hasn't yet materialized that I went into sports management, but I haven't ruled it out yet, either. I only half-jokingly remarked that I'd love to be the commissioner of the NFL. But as I recently told current Commissioner Roger Goodell, that job looked a lot more appealing when I was struggling with the Russians and the Iranians everyday.

I am going to be a professional soccer player.

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job.

If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job

Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.

We're going to have strong borders. People are going to come into the country, but they're going to come legally. We're going to keep our jobs and not let them go to Mexico.

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

Are Democrats for expanding U.S. trade with the world and perhaps creating new jobs, or are they out to protect existing U.S. jobs?

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.

A player has no use for an agent. None.

I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

Ive just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can.

I literally would have been the guy that would have played pro ball until they came to me and said, "Go home, you don't work here anymore."

We can try to keep jobs here in America rather than seeing them go overseas.

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.