Stephen Moore Quotes

If you're at the top of the game, you're earning money. But compared to other sports, like tennis, you're earning peanuts.

Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

I would never do 'Dancing With The Stars,' because it's just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.

I feel like I'm more a fan of tennis rather than it being men's or women's. I enjoy watching doubles as well when it's on. I think that there are certain players that I enjoy watching on the men's and women's side. There's some players that I don't enjoy watching on both sides.

I could have started playing professional at 16, 17 quite easily. For my position, I was far better than a lot of people around me. All the people in front of me had was experience but, talent-wise, I easily could get in.

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.

I think tennis is very different than most of the other sports when you have the opportunity to go pro. For me, it was pretty simple. Tennis was always an individual sport, and your direct results determined where you could go and what you could do.

Sports is all about money.

I did play other sports growing up. I played cricket and all those other things, but I was just so much more talented in golf, and that's all I wanted to do.

When young players become one of the best in the world, everyone wants to sign them.

Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time.

Women's tennis? I think it stinks. They hit the ball back and forth, have a lot of nice volleys, and you can see some pretty legs. But it's night and day compared to men's tennis.

I can play the No. 1 player in the world in a pretty close match.

I've played so many games of football now, and even though it is at a higher level, at the end of the day, football is football. You are just playing with better players.

To be in the top 10 for the first time, it's like a dream. When you start to play tennis, it's something you think about.

Group events like cricket, football and kabaddi have private leagues, which are all being played for money. There are no such events in athletics. Everything is run by the government bodies, there's less money involved in our game, and we are not even paid as well as people in other sports.

You have better players and teams in England, and for myself, it is better to play in a better league against better players.

A lot of people just assume men's tennis is better.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

I played international football for England, and in many games, we were technically inferior to the opposition.

When you're watching people in non-title fights making four times the amount of money that a champion makes, it takes away the flavor of being a champion.

Tennis has always been at the forefront of equality between men and women's prize money.

I think my best tennis is good enough to win.

Being world No 1 would be fantastic but you'd like to do it by finishing the year as No 1 without anything happening off the table to someone else's ranking.

I was lucky to get a professional contract. I wasn't that sort of talent that is considered to be a professional player.