"I think in the actual case of managers, I think he got it, from my point of view, slightly wrong, because it felt like a very casual comparison" -- Chelsea Manager Frank Lampard, on Man City F Raheem Sterling's claim that white managers have an easier path in the Premier League (ESPN.com, 6/25).
"There’s certainly great content overseas, but it’s from a different time zone and there are no local heroes. That’s what we’re building here" -- East Asia Super League CCO Mark Fischer, on his hopes for the recently launched regional basketball competition (SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 6/25).
"It’s a no-brainer that you can’t get the same price should you decide to replace the sponsor. Instead, it’s best to make them pay for the sponsorship deals and boycott the products. That’s a good Indian rhetoric: Take money from one hand and don’t pass it on from another" -- advertising exec Prahlad Kakkar, on what the Indian Premier League should do with Chinese sponsors like Vivo in the wake of India’s border dispute with China (THE HINDU, 6/25).
