Sports Marketing Quotes

I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.

Twitter's brilliant. It allows us to talk to fans and gets them to games.

A tournament pays me to show up because the fans want to see me and I move the needle at the box office? That's amazing. It's good for tennis, good for me and good for the event. If a sponsor wants to pay to put their company name on my shirt because they think I'm a strong ambassador for their brand? Heck yes.

The arrival of Beckham at Milan is not just a matter of marketing.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

Regardless of what people think of the WWE, we're great at storylines; we're great at drawing money. We're great at causing controversy, and when the other sports do it, they usually do better. It keeps it interesting and makes it fun for the fans.

I've done this commercial with Arnold Palmer. He doesn't play that much anymore, but it'd be fun to have him in the cart.

Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.'

I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.

Hopefully I won't be the last big splash at Under Armour.

My team good, we don’t really need a mascot.

I think I'm more traditional in how I do media. I want my brand to be about football.

You can't just live in the past, peddling the '80s Showtime Lakers, and expect everyone to know what that is. We have many fans who weren't even alive in the '80s.

Being in UFC is a great promotion for me because I have more fans from all over Australia.

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

Professional sports play a very important part in American life and a very important part in the American imagination. Anybody who goes to the movies these days sees just what an important part of the American mind sports comprise. If they are so important and have such a hold on the minds and imaginations of children, then this ought to be a focal point of our efforts.

You've got guys out there that are good spokespeople for their sponsors or whatever. They do a good job of selling merchandise and all that. And then you've got guys that are just good wheel men.

Puma does a really good job with its athletes and providing what we want.

I've been wanting to be sponsored by some kind of hair product for a long time. I have a lot of hair, and it goes through a lot in my training camps anyways, so having some kind of great hair sponsor would probably be awesome for me. I'm kind of hard on my hair, but I think I have nice hair.

We're talking about being relevant again. I want the Sixers to be on people's tongues again... I want the Sixers to be the basketball team that people want to see.

I think the NHL has done a great job of building the sport as far as getting the people's attention and letting them know what's going on in hockey - especially when the powers meet each other.

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

Nobody worked as hard to make snooker a popular sport as I did.

You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

From my point of view, I'd like to bring other meaningful events through WWE, whether that's NXT or the United Kingdom championships, taking international brands and putting them on in those markets.