Quotes About Support

I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.

I've never had a kit sponsor. I get kit sent to me by a company but they wouldn't sign me on a proper deal. It's frustrating.

When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

I had always sponsored children. At fifteen, I had sponsored two girls through Plan International.

It was not until I got sponsored at 12 that I finally owned a racket.

I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.

I'm sponsored by Nike and stuff.

I'm sponsored by Reebok and I appreciate everything they've done for me. They do a lot for me on a daily basis and they've actually been great.

I love working with sponsors.

When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.

In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the climber free rein to follow his or her passion toward whatever is inspiring. It's a wonderful freedom, in many ways similar to that of an artist who simply lives his life and creates whatever moves him.

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.

At the end of the day, if we don't show female sports on TV, how are sponsors going to want to sponsor women? And if we don't support the women, how do you expect us to get results? It's a bit of a catch-22.

Sometimes I play for the media, sometimes for the fans, sometimes for my sponsors, and sometimes it's for my family. Really, I play for everyone.

I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

It's important to understand the big difference between a mentor and sponsor. I was fortunate that I had both, and my sponsors have been both men and women.

Mentors and sponsors are beneficial for personal and career growth.

On the U.S.A. team our income wasn't coming from U.S.A. It was coming from sponsors, it was coming from how we made money elsewhere.

In Bellator, they don't attack you for your sponsors. They get you sponsors. They don't get mad at you for doing movies. They get you movies.

A lot of people don't know the USOC is not government funded and they are always looking for support from sponsors.

We have to do more than tell women they need sponsors. We have to identify high-potential women by name and strategically map them to those who can help them get to the next level.

I am out there to put on the best performance I can for my sponsors and my team and my fans.