Sports Commercialization Quotes

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

I don't begrudge a coach for trying to get all that he or she can. I don't resent a school feeling it needs to pay to keep top talent. I'm just afraid to think where all of this will end up because the overall impact seems to be stretching far beyond the scoreboard.

Tennis is more commercial these days.

Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good ol' boys" as they referred to themselves. That's exactly how they would be described in the press that slowly became enamored with their raucous life style. That has all changed, with the drivers of today polished and clean-cut athletes who are expected to behave like commercial puppets in public.

The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.