Top 69 Money Sports Quotes
#1. Any sport where people earn a lot of money you are going to get groupies.
Eric Bristow
#2. The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers.
George Foreman
#4. You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.
Roone Arledge
#5. When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
Willie Mays
#6. Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
Bruce Dern
#7. To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
Mary Russell Mitford
#8. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud.
Michael Crichton
#10. To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
Jerry West
#11. I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.
Justin Bieber
#12. The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.
Will McDonough
#13. When you look at other sports, like golf, the players earn a lot more money without running around.
Thierry Henry
#14. If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have to throw in trillions of dollars to get Israel to agree to the deal, but it would be money well spent.
Thomas Sowell
#15. If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.
Greg LeMond
#16. What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports? And I say to people who tell me they can't travel, 'How much did you spend at the mall this year? How many times did you eat out? Take that money and go.'
Dhani Jones
#17. For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.
Kurt Russell
#18. There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.
Linford Christie
#19. Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.
Bobby Bonilla
#20. On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.
Martina Navratilova
#21. Money can't buy marital happiness, but you can buy a sports car to get away as quickly as you can when your wife is angry with you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#22. Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
Joe Frazier
#23. Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.
Harbhajan Singh
#24. I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.
Rickie Fowler
#25. I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.
Rob Lee
#26. The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.
Samuel Chadwick
#27. Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger.
George Vecsey
#28. I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money.
Nastia Liukin
#29. Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster ... The repercussions may be extreme ... and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.
John Money
#30. I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.
Susan Orlean
#31. My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
Haile Gebrselassie
#32. I think that money has changed my sport.
Bill Toomey
#33. After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.
Huey Lewis
#34. If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.
Frank Deford
#35. Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
Ben Jipcho
#36. I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.
Jake Hecht
#37. As a matter of fact, believe it or not guys, you can actually lose money in sports! I know that you'll find that shocking.
Stan Kroenke
#39. When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me ... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.
Alexis Arguello
#40. Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it's not just a sports contest - a boxing match for money or belts.
Tyson Fury
#41. I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!
Doyle Brunson
#42. Unlike most traditional, season-long fantasy sports sites, which make most of their money from administrative fees and advertising, FanDuel and DraftKings take a cut of every bet. That is what bookies do, and it is illegal in New York.
Eric Schneiderman
#43. You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Lee Trevino
#44. Modeling is a way for me to continue with my sport, the hours are flexible and you can earn good money through photographic modeling and the catwalk
Leryn Franco
#45. I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.
Mike Piazza
#46. A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around
Bonnie Blair
#47. I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.
Kurt Russell
#48. No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#49. Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.
Tony McCoy
#50. You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
Greg LeMond
#51. Pumping iron is not what it used to be. It doesn't have the personality it used to. When we started out, people who worked out had nothing. Now there is so much money involved; back then it was the love of the sport. We appreciated what we have. Today it's not the same.
Lou Ferrigno
#52. There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards.
Don King
#53. Anybody who follows me on Twitter or Facebook knows that I'm super into fantasy sports. I like to make money on my sports knowledge basically.
Slaine
#55. I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.
Peter Nygard
#56. I am very obsessed with ballet now because it is a very difficult sport and a beautiful one because it is not about money. It's not like playing football or tennis - dance has no sponsors, it's just for the beauty. Maybe it is the only last pure sport.
Carine Roitfeld
#57. There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it.
Kevin Kwan
#58. When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're going to buy when you've got lots of money. You know, you're just there. You're in the moment. And I think in a contemporary world, that's a rare privilege.
Tim Winton
#59. Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
Carlos Slim
#60. A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.
Mike Huckabee
#61. Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
Katarina Witt
#62. If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
Ben Carson
#63. I'm going to give the people their money's worth ... true sports entertainment for their dollar. I'm the undefeated IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion making my fifth title defense. The crowd will be with me because everybody wants to be with a winner.
Tavoris Cloud
#64. Sparks is a sporting charity that puts on golf tournaments for sick children, and my animal charities include Oldham Cats and Feline Care, a big cat charity close to me in Norfolk. I'm also a Freemason and the money they raise for charity is phenomenal.
Rick Wakeman
#65. Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.
John Piper
#66. When you're good enough in your sport, you have the option to choose your sponsors. Sometimes you pass up a lot of money to support the people you like and the products you want to use but in the end it's worth it!
Travis Pastrana
#67. As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.
Vladimir Putin
#68. Everyone that works behind a desk wants to know how many bones I've broken and how much money I make. It seems that people who've never experienced the excitement of sport seem to think the only thing worth taking risks for is money.
Travis Pastrana
#69. As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
Avery Brundage
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