Sports Sponsorship Quotes

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

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.'

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.

It's just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you've held up the Stanley Cup.

I'm proud to be considered a member of the Nike family.

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.

I think the UFC does a pretty good job of backing me.

As a kid growing up in Canton, Ohio, you never see yourself in a position to play in the NBA, much less have somebody pay you to wear shoes.

You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the Dallas Cowboys a Super Bowl.

Sports entertainment in general, it's a very competitive business.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Group events like cricket, football and kabaddi have private leagues, which are all being played for money. There are no such events in athletics. Everything is run by the government bodies, there's less money involved in our game, and we are not even paid as well as people in other sports.

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

There are big tournaments going on around the world, and some of them you cannot ignore because, financially, they make a huge difference in our lives.

I am fortunate to be on board with one of India's top sports management group.

I was a little concerned about it when State Farm approached me because, you know, I've never done a commercial by any means, but I tried to look at it as something that would be good for our game. We've never had a women's basketball coach represented in that fashion and I love State Farm for the fact they really support the women's game.

Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He'd skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.

Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.

If we broaden the audience for cricket, more people will be interested in all forms, then TV rights and sponsors and crowds will follow.

I am definitely not the first person with a sports program to have a Hollywood star come on, but I don't know of any that does it as a staple of the program, which is something we are trying to do.

The tobacco companies and snooker were as thick as thieves.