Considering he sells the product he calls crap, but he makes billions out of it, he needs to work with the participants to un-crap it.
-- Sahara Force India Owner Vijay Mallya, on Bernie Eccelstone, after the F1 CEO said he had a "crap product to sell."
It will completely change the mentality of those who go to the stadium.
-- AC Milan VP Barbara Berlusconi, after the club won approval on a site for its new 48,000-seat stadium.
It's no surprise that England is way ahead of us. They are going to every corner of the world.
-- Bayern Munich Exec Chair Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, calling on Bundesliga clubs to travel to the American and Asian markets that are key to marketing the league.
It's exciting for the way forward, not just for women's cricket, but for women's sport.
-- Cricket player Ellyse Perry, on the launch of the Women's Big Bash League.
He's always disliked me, he hates the British media and doesn't like the English at all, which is fine because we don’t really like him.
-- FA Chair Greg Dyke, on FIFA President Sepp Blatter.
The IPL is probably the biggest global sporting property to emerge over the past half a century, but it has always had this nasty underbelly of corruption. Now the law seems to have caught up with it.
-- Mumbai-based cricket writer Ayaz Memon, on the court-ordered suspension of IPL teams Chennai and Rajasthan.
You aren't going to make it in football without money.
-- Hertha Berlin President Werner Gegenbauer, on the Bundesliga club's search for a new investor.
The lads are scared.
-- Team Sky Sports Dir Nicolas Portal, after two of the team's riders were attacked by fans on the Tour de France route.
I don't think there is a total denial of racism in Russia but there is certainly a lack of understanding by officials in Russia of what racism is.
-- U.N. Anti-Discrimination Section Chief Yuri Boychenko, after Russian football was embroiled in yet another racism dispute.
I want people to invest in women’s sport because it's the smart thing to do, not because it’s the quote, unquote, right thing to do.
-- U.S. Women’s player Abby Wambach, speaking at the Doha GOALS conference in L.A.
President Blatter is like a cannibal eating his parents and then crying he's an orphan. He tries to blame everybody except himself.
-- South Korean businessman Chung Mong-joon, announcing his candidacy for FIFA's presidency.
This spiked on a level that really isn’t comparable to anything we’ve ever seen before.
-- WSL VP of Communications Dave Prodan, on interest in the league generated by the shark attack on surfer Mick Fanning.
We are serious investors.
-- Rangers First Dir Ricki Neill, after the supporters group wrapped up a deal to buy nearly 600,000 shares in the Scottish club.
It is a declaration of war on my sport.
-- IAAF VP Sebastian Coe, attacking charges that the organization covered up positive doping tests.
If I can’t be the woman to break through the glass ceiling, then I want to be involved in making it happen for the person who does.
-- F1 driver Susie Wolff, on leaving her mark in the male-dominated series.
You never come out of these deals thinking you have done a great deal.
-- Nine Network CEO David Gyngell, after his "decision to splurge" $685M on the National Rugby League's TV rights.
We don't call a foreign number and then they transfer money.
-- German Football League CEO Christian Seifert, on the difficulty of generating revenue in foreign markets.
Football rights are a contact sport themselves and the match for the NRL rights is probably about halftime.
-- News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson, vowing that talks between Fox Sports and the NRL about TV rights are “far from over.”
We don’t want their money; we want their loyalty.
-- Parma Calcio 1913 Vice Chair Marco Ferrari, on enlisting "citizen shareholders" in bid to bring storied Parma club back to life.
We have always preferred Aussie rules.
-- News Corp. Founder Rupert Murdoch, after closing a record $1.8B rights deal with the Australian Football League on the heels of the NRL's then-record hookup with Nine.
There were no sweetheart deals. It was me, on my own, against Allen & Overy, the government and all their advisers.
-- West Ham Vice-Chair Karren Brady, responding to critics of the Premier League club's deal for use of the Olympic Stadium.
Who knows, he might even get Americans to like Vegemite.
-- San Francisco sports marketer Bob Dorfman, on the marketing potential for former NRL player Jarryd Hayne if he makes the cut for the 49ers.
It is a cowardly decision.
-- Spanish basketball club Ourense President Antonio Gavilanes, after the club was denied promotion to the Spanish Basketball League.
If we take this away from the calendar for any shitty money reasons I think you are basically ripping our hearts out.
-- Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel, on the possibility of losing Monza as the host venue of the Italian F1 Grand Prix.
Don't expect them to be Beyonce, walking through and doing a music ad, it's not what they're able to do.
-- O2 Marketing Communications Chief Ian Cafferky, on not using athletes for the new Rugby World Cup ad campaign.
It’s not that we were out to champion feminism or anything like that. We’re a commercial organization. We’ve done it for commercial reasons.
-- Kia U.K. Corporate Communications Dir Steve Kitson, on the carmaker's position that sponsoring women's cricket was a good business decision.
What this does is it brings the game into the lives of ordinary people here who wouldn’t have had the chance to actually see one.
-- Tourism Ireland CEO Niall Gibbons, on Dublin hosting football games between U.S. university teams.
Physical activity is a very uncertain yardstick.
-- English Bridge Union lawyer Richard Clayton, on Sport England's ruling not to provide funding for the "sport."
I would be ashamed to waste what London spent in a country where we need sanitation; where education needs money.
-- Filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, on directing the Rio Opening Ceremony with one-tenth of the budget of the London Games.
Never talk about the financial side at the start of a relationship. Finances come second or third.
-- Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen, on the way to build long-lasting relationships with sponsors.
FIA is definitely a lot more democratic. NASCAR is more like a dictatorship.
-- Haas F1 Team Founder and Chair Gene Haas, on the differences between the European and American racing circuits.
