Sport Business Quotes

It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.

Football is a business, at the end of the day.

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.

I think we disregard fans too much. They drive our sport. The money has gotten so big that it has become a corporate league other than the nosebleed seats.

Honestly, direct monetary comparisons aren't helpful. If you're going to look at remuneration, you have to be realistic about what revenue we're bringing in for the organisation and the sport. And as it currently stands, women's cricket is still a cost to the business.

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

I love football. I love my profession. What I don't like is cases where owners prioritise their interests over the club's. Football can't be solely about profit. Look, no one's stupid: no one wants to lose money but nor should it be about people getting rich off people's dreams.

Money is killing football: people are making their decisions based on money.

Supporters pay a lot of money, they do. And sport is beautiful in many ways, because it attracts people from far and wide.

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

At the level Neymar moves at, you do not change teams for money.

Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.