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"The IPL is a huge moneymaker in India. Since 2014, the IPL's brand valuation has doubled to $6.3 billion."
"Tom Brady has turned this billion-dollar operation, the NFL, into his little business playground."
"The difference is Meza Ozil commercially is a bigger marketable player than Aaron Ramsey will ever be."
"The business of sports always wins in the end."
"Just another evidence of greed as well. They don't like football, they don't like Manchester United. They bought us to make money."
"Ronaldo will definitely own a football club in the future..."
"If you like making money out of football, piss off and buy somebody else with the 5 billion."
"You observe and it's like transfers... there are enough things going on with United to make me think that this sale is coming."
"I think a lot of that is just because Manchester United is a huge name."
"These two deals will be the two biggest deals in the history of your football club."
"Shani got a 10-year deal for $700 million and it's because he's a freaking unicorn."
"Verbal agreement finally released with Barcelona for free around 15 million Euros."
"It's all about leverage, and Dak's sitting back right now with all of it."
"It's very interesting because this could very well just be the UFC cash out if he decides to go the free agent route."
"This deal will elevate Liverpool's new standards."
"I hope that one day football fans realize that we are the enemy of ourselves cuz it's our eyes they want. If nobody watched football, there would be no Super League."
"LeBron's basketball was more than a game. It is business and to his deepest desires as a free agent."
"I'm always for an athlete getting paid sooner rather than later."
"Muhammad Ali changed the whole dynamic of the business side."
"LeBron James couldn't do this sports agency with all the money he has. He has to team up with UTA because the infrastructure now."
"Juventus signed Paul Pogba for a compensation fee of just eight hundred thousand pounds from Manchester United before being sold back to the Red Devils after four seasons playing in Turin for a world record-breaking 89 million pound fee."
"The business we've done is okay, the manner of the business, it leaves a sour taste in the mouths of Man United fans."
"Jesse Lingard leaving is the best thing for us. I hope he goes for real money, though, Flex."
"You just never know, and that's just the reality of it, I mean it's a business."
"I don't think it matters whether we protest whether we get glazes out trending whether people do nothing... I think it's absolutely inevitable that the glazers are going to sell this football club."
"How much this could play a part in UFC fighter leverage."
"Football now is a business... They treat you players like a piece of meat." - Cristiano Ronaldo
"For a free, that is just ridiculous man, that's the piece of business of the summer in my opinion."
"Your job isn't to create cap room. Yeah, that's their [ __ ] job. This is their business. You get every dollar you're worth. You're trying to be in their situation. We're not taught that."
"Go on then, you're gonna make us loads of money because it's United, innit?"
"I do believe there will be multiple suitors for WWE."
"Financial insiders have repeatedly stated that twice the Chelsea sale price... is excellent value."
"I'm completely relaxed about Ronaldo's agent asking clubs about Ronaldo because that's what a good agent does."
"If they mess anything up, they may lose one of the best that they got in the entire company right now."
"Sports business is not covered very well by the sports media, ill-equipped."
"Is it even still possible to start a sports card business in 2023? My answer, in my opinion, is 100% yes."
"Their goal: to unlock the next big sports business opportunity, run it like a fast-growing tech startup, invent a new playbook for sports franchises around the world, and change culture."
"This was a sport that was exploding, a business that was at its infancy stages, and an opportunity to invest, help shape it, and mold it."
"I just said if you can get my foot in the door with ESPN, I can sell a televised downhill BMX racing concept that I think they will buy, just get my foot in the door."
"Their success established Vegas as a viable market for pro sports."
"...when you have a team that's winning you have a team that's gone to a Stanley Cup Final people show up..."
"...the idea that the attendance being low in a few locations might be bad for the salary cap is out there but the fact that Florida is now drawing over 19,000 fans per game..."
"The NFL is like we'd rather just sell it to you rather than give money to the... the key to any new stadium is just two words: hotel tax."
"We want African football clubs to be profitable, we want them to be commercially viable."
"There's no denying that given the UFC's position as unquestionably the most recognizable brand in all of Combat Sports... there was absolutely money to be made in boxing."
"The merger would skyrocket the league into the stratosphere in terms of popularity."
"I think every single one of us can think of at least one sports franchise that really needs to pick up and move on from the city that they're in right now."
"You can't relocate a big market franchise to London, but the fact that the Jaguars struggle to fill up their own building compared to most other teams gives every reason to support a relocation."
"The return on investment is perhaps better with us than with any other competitive team."
"It's part of the business, if Peyton Manning can get cut out of Indianapolis, anybody can get cut."
"I love the competition; I love the business of the sport."
"The Dolphins owner rejects a $1 billion offer."
"College football in the United States today is big business and among the most important aspects of the American sporting scene."
"Everyone in the NFL signs the GLA, the group licensing agreement, which says if any brand wants to work with six or more NFL players, then everyone gets a piece of the pie."
"Football is a game that depends on repeat purchase; it depends on customers coming back through the turnstiles time and time again."
"We're investing in new value in the game of golf."
"The success of the franchise is dependent on the performance of the team."
"The NHL in 1990 had total revenues around 450 million; by 1999, revenues had tripled to over 1.4 billion."
"Whether you're upcoming in sports business or already established, you need to make networking a regular activity."
"The value in the Premier League is in selling the club."
"That would allow the Grizzlies to generate more revenue by having more premium seats."
"Chess has been on the sidelines of sports business for a long time, now things changed."
"He could possibly be the first player to own the team he plays for."
"We're in the fight business. You're gonna have bad fights sometimes, but most of the time, UFC events are great."
"That's the highest price ever for an American sports team."
"We've just got to get the arena situation resolved and if we can do that, this is going to be a strong franchise in the National Hockey League."
"The business of basketball... you have to be disciplined every day."
"WWE just sold the rights to NBCU for Smackdown for 1.4 billion dollars."