It's sad when a MMA fighter talks to an NFL or NBA player about how much money they make. That's embarrassing. You tell them how much you make and they laugh.
The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.
You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.
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!
When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Fighting is the only sport where fans don't understand this is our living.
I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.
The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.
I've been in the Premier League for 10 years, more, and the money I've been paid is phenomenal compared to your average, everyday working man.
Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
