Baseball is a business. Sure, we fans are wistful dreamers who fantasize about glory on the diamond, but to the people who hold the purse strings, the Cubs win the economic World Series every year.
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
We know the English market is quite high and I think that sometimes puts clubs off. I think there is a lot of hype around the Premier League.
We don't have any kind of sponsors. The players invest themselves. They need money. They need resources... That's why, in sports and teams, they have sponsors - in soccer, in the NFL. Everyone has sponsors who invest and help to pay daily expenses.
Football is a business, at the end of the day.
Free agency is free agency. I love when NBA players get paid.
Nowadays, it's hard to know if a player really deserves the money spent on him, because transfer values are high.
Football is only about money, and I don't like it.
You can't say it's good when guys out there are signing minor league deals and they would be big league players on 80 percent of the teams, but why would a team sign a player when you can pay dirt, and they're not going to win anyway?
Baseball has all the money.
In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.
He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.
Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.
There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.
The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.
Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.
The money players are on these days is immoral, but you can't knock it
Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.
The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.
You can't just go out and buy players and make a super team, because it's so hard to do that. The salary cap doesn't allow it. We have a much smaller salary cap than the NBA, and they only have 12 on a roster.
The NFL is a business and I accept it for what it is.
Tennis is more commercial these days.
I want to be on a successful team, and I know that paying one or two or three players premium hurts your chances of being able to bring in extra talent.
We all play football to get money.
That is football. In the end, all clubs spend money.
