Reasons Why Athletes Get Paid

Some think that professional athletes get paid way too much but others think that they are paid what they deserve. The definition of pro athlete by http://www.allaboutcareers.com/ is a person that makes their living by competing in sporting competitions. Since 760 BC, when the first sport was held in Ancient Greece, athletic events have been enjoyed by people. Athletes provide hours of entertainment to many people all over the world. It is clear that professional athletes do not get paid enough, because they get paid the same amount as actors and they don’t do anything physical. Bill gates paid 114.16 every second and athletes get paid 20 million per season, they both work hard for their money. Their money that they should be paid is being held back, therefore, they are not paid to much.

Imagine a workers boss getting paid from his or her success while the worker gets nothing in return. If you have not realized already that is a pretty basic definition of a pimp and that is exactly what the NCAA does to their athletes (Latham). The NCAA should pay their college athletes for their hard work.

Money is a big part of the issue when it comes to paying athletes in college. If schools were allowed to pay athletes for playing at their school, then you would be signing the death certificated of those schools that do not generate as much money as the larger schools. Smaller schools would not be able to compete with larger schools simply because they could never make the same big time offers as the larger schools. All of the best players would go to the same schools because they all want the most money, but who could blame them? If you had to choose between a larger salary and a smaller one, chances are that you would choose the larger salary. Large schools can offer much more money than the smaller schools can and for that reason, small schools athletic departments would never be able to compete.

A child decides to join a tee-ball team. During the season, he sits on the ground and picks grass in the outfield. At the end of the season, this child gets an award: best flower picker! Some may say that this child just needed some self-esteem to help him get along. In reality, this child got a reward for doing nothing, even for not doing what he was supposed to. When children, such as this one, receive pointless awards, they assume all rewards come with no effort put in, they expect everything in life to come easily, and they don’t learn how to work diligently to earn rewards.

Gracie was in the final round of her gymnastics competition. The judges were announcing the first place winner now. “...... in second place. And last but not least, in first place….. Gracie!!” Gracie jumped in the air as her ponytail began flopping on her head. She ran up to get her trophy. After all this, she looked around and noticed that second place, third place, fourth place, fifth place, all the way down to last place were all awarded trophies that all looked exactly the same. Every detail... the foot high structure with the stars at the top, the blue lettering spelling out “great job” in the middle, the coloring, were ALL the same. Suddenly, she did not feel as much of a winner. She wondered why the people who did not work hard, goofed around during practice, and fell more than once during their routine got the same reward as she did… the one who worked hard everyday. The one who took her preparation very seriously. The one who practiced for perfection each day. So, why should inattentive people be rewarded with the same thing as the dedicated people? Why should athletes work hard when they know that everyone will get a trophy anyway? Of course, there

If you were an athlete would you like to get paid, for what you enjoy to do? There are many reasons why an athlete should get paid, for their hard work to help and represent their school. For example, the Amount of Time Spent on Athletics, Time Out of Class, and Lack of Competition. These are three main reasons why the athlete should be able to show their talented and get paid for it also.

I think that many athletes don’t really work at all. To get money is very easy. All you have to do is show up to a ballgame and get a thousand dollars. You just have to play around for money. I’m against it because it’s easy, and easy shouldn’t get you paid.

Many athletes are praised for their performances in middle school and high school; however, when they realize they have made it to pay at a college level they tend to relax. Because of the constant praise athletes get an ego and tend to think because they are the best they do not have to try as hard as others on the team (or other athletes in general). They stop grinding (or putting in work) because they think they have already made it and their job is done. Some people are not as fast, skilled, or talented as other, but if you put work in you can still make it. Eric says that while others are relaxing and taking it easy while you are grinding soon enough you are going to pass them and become better than them. You have the drive and drive can

Money is flooding into these athletic departments and the athletes benefit in many ways, but do athletes deserve to be paid for what? Most people think they shouldn’t be paid because where would they get the money from. Athletes should be paid for what they do because it could keep them in school.

Throughout the many decades of professional sports being around, there has been many great athletes to whom thousands of people look up to who have been accused of using performance enhancing drugs. For instance, there has been many professional athletes who have ruined up their careers by using PEDs such as: Ben Johnson, Lance Armstrong, and Barry Bonds, just to name a few. (Timeline.com) But, that’s not the point that I’m trying to make here. My point is that these athletes were striped of their records, medals and accomplishments for what, just to be punished for being great? Regardless if they went against the rules set for them, they still set multiple records between all of them. Some of those records won’t be broken for years, maybe

Athletes are paid higher than most people, whether they are deserved of it or not. Athletes are paid much higher than most people. These athletes make outrageous money compared to our everyday working human being. For example, Kobe Bryant recently earned $53 million in one year. As a public school teacher, I'd have to work for 964 years to match that income (Kim and Carew 1). This evidence shows that the average athlete even if they are not making the most in their league, they still make much more than average people. Therefore, with high salaries comes high responsibilities and some of these athletes don’t use their money responsibly. Many athletes go broke just years after their career is over. Three fourths of NFL players lose most of their

The average salary for a teacher is approximately $55,000 per year. LeBron James makes more in 50 minutes than a teacher makes in a month. He makes $71 million a year. Many professional athletes get paid millions of dollars. Some people think that these athletes get paid way too much money when doctors, firefighters, teachers, soldiers, and other professions don't make near as much money as professional athletes. Now, some people don’t think professional athletes get paid too much. They say it's because all the pain, hard work, effort, and the other things they go through just to get paid gobs of money. I think that professional athletes get paid way too much money just to play a game that usually last around a couple of hours.

It is true that more sporting champions now pay more attention to play for the money the get paid than what records they can break or whether they can win a match. This kind of phenomenon actually not that astonish to the public. Recent research reveals that more graduated students are more willing to choose jobs which can offer them high paid and ignore whether the students themselves are interested in the job or not. It is the same reason for those athletes.

“My goal was never to become famous, my goal was to achieve my dreams.” -Neymar da Silva Santos Jr. All he wanted to do was play the game, he didn’t want the fame or the money. An athlete is a person that plays a sport for money and to entertain an audience. An athlete, sometimes known as a sports competitor is a career with a bright future because of the work activities and salary.

Imagine: it is Thursday afternoon and your first soccer game you were supposed to play is in five minutes but, you were told that you can not play because your family can not afford the uniform or the equipment. Many families a year spend thousands of dollars on sports. Kids just want to have fun enjoying a sport and they can not afford to play it. Sports cost way too much money from the ball to the uniform. Families can not balance the money to pay the gas, snacks, and the essentials.