Athlete Earnings Quotes

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

I made more from sponsorship than I did from fighting. I did that for the longest time.

Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

…in the first half of the 2015 baseball season, 1.3% of the players took in 91% of the winnings.

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

As the saying goes, Bruce Jenner is a millionaire, and Mark Spitz is a dentist. It's the wrong sport.

How am I one of the biggest fighters in the world and I get bigger paychecks outside of boxing?