Behinds Quote by Travis Pastrana

Sports is all about money.

— Lynn Samuels

I don't think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it,…

— Virat Kohli

It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk…

— Jaycie Phelps

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

— Avery Brundage

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk…

— Anonymous

I think in the long term, you make money with focusing on the sport.

— Demian Maia

I think money in general hurts all sports.

— Will McDonough

Sport teaches you so much, and you can translate that to other parts of life. But it's definitely a lot of dedication, not just…

— Venus Williams

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever…

— Venus Williams

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

— Irvin S. Cobb

Professional sports is a monster. It's not even real life. It's one of the few things in life, the economy goes bad, you still…

— Jermaine O'Neal

I couldn't really justify playing for money, and I think what I wanted to achieve put me at too great a risk, so I…

— Chris Borland