According Quote by Martin Jacques

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

— Avery Brundage

Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

— Alastair Cook

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.

— John Skipper

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

— Avery Brundage

The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not…

— Eddie Alvarez

Sports are a microcosm of society.

— Billie Jean King

Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and…

— Darell Hammond

We need to wake up to idea that you cannot treat sport on equal terms with other parts of the economy.

— Frans Timmermans

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players…

— Bob Hope

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

— James Surowiecki

Sports is all about money.

— Lynn Samuels

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

— Andrew Young