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The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.

— Patch Adams

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

— Naturi Naughton

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.

— Arne Duncan

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

— Danny Masterson

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

— Mickey Gilley

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

— Jennifer Saunders

✗Opposing Perspectives

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

— Evan Esar

Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.

— Kid Rock

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

— David Cassidy

There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.

— Corey Hart

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

— Al Spalding