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Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality.

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

American athletes, especially distance runners, are at a big disadvantage against the rest of the world. We're expected to live by all the rules, like not being able to coach, but still train and make our own living.

Before the last Olympics, we had meat raffles at the local surf club to get petrol money to go to training, to help out with the bills. But I know there are a lot of athletes worse off and that all athletes, at some stage of their careers, have made sacrifices.

For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer.