Should Athletes Be Overpaid?

Yes, Athletes get paid too much money. Accordingly to the article,from LeBron James making 71 million dollars and the President does not make as much money as LeBron James. Nurses, and other people who save lives do not make as much money as LeBron James.

Young athlete’s main goal to attain is to become a professional athlete. Many want to become a professional athlete due to the money, others for the love of the particular sport that they are interested in. There is a downside in becoming a professional athlete, that many young players are not aware of. This downside is that professional athletes’ go broke faster than they are drafted into the leagues. Many professional athletes such as NBA and NFL players go broke due to career duration, overspending, family issues, and lack of financial knowledge.

Are Athletes getting paid too much? Some would say yes, some would say no. Athletes are paid based off their skills, talent and their work ethic. I believe it’s what drives kids and or students to strive to be their very best because they as student athletes can only dream of a life like this. One sport where people athletes are overpaid is Major League Baseball. Baseball players are given vasts sums of money based on their performance, however there are many other reasons that I personally feel qualifies them for high salaries other than performance.

Professional athletes are highly talented and determined entertainers with extraordinary physical abilities. They compete in various sports to entertain people and make a living. Those include basketball, football, baseball, hockey, tennis, and the list goes on to any athlete that gets paid to play. These athletes train really hard and for long hours to be the best at what they do. Fans pay to watch them perform because they really enjoy seeing them. Like other entertainers, such as actors and singers, athletes are paid large amounts for their performances. Professional athletes are not overpaid for the amount of physical and mental stress they go through to do their job.

In today’s world there are usually two people, athletes and non-athletes. Now out of the millions of sub-categories of humans; whether it be race or gender or preference or nationality, it all comes down to two types of people, those who play sports and those who watch. For those who play there is a whole lot of effort, and little reward. People say, “why can playing for a big-name school not be enough?” or, “You have a scholarship, quite asking for more”. Those who watch, think to themselves, those players probably have the highlife, flying in jets, and being paid money out of pocket. When they could not be further from the truth. For their extra work, and

As a casual reader of the sports section of this newspaper, you come across many articles depicting the triumphs of local athletes. However, very rarely do these articles describe the actual athlete behind the success. Athletes come in all sorts of sizes and shapes. They range from the incredibly talented to the horribly uncoordinated. Some are great teammates while others would rather be a one man team. Certain athletes seek out attention from the people around them while others are modest and stay in the background. The fact of the matter is that there is a wide spectrum of different types of athletes that exist in this world and no two athletes are exactly the same. However, each can be put

All around the world sports are the topic of discussion, both teams and athletes bring forth millions of viewers to see what a sports team is made up of. College is where a student gets the opportunity to shine. If a college athlete possesses a significant amount of talent they have the potential to become a professional. At a college level, students don’t receive payment; regardless of what level an athlete is on, when an individual has a natural talent the individual should be paid for doing what he is good at. This idea of not paying student athletes needs to change because these student athletes have become involved in a craft and deserve compensation for their involvement. Three key elements that is discussed in this essay will give probable cause for athletes to be compensated. The three factors that are analyzed in this essay is the commitment of time that a player sets into his or her sport, the large debt accumulated while in school, and the amount of money colleges earn through student athletes. All three aspects are valid reasons as to why colleges must start paying their athletes.

In today’s society many will argue whether or not professional athletes are overpaid. In the present time athletes are being paid phenomenally large amounts of money for their entertainment. It is my claim that all professional athletes are overpaid because they do not offer society an essential function that improves or enhances our world in comparison to other professionals such as medical doctors, lawyers, and teachers. Society does not value entertainment enough to warrant such high salaries such as those of many professional athletes. There is no reason that these athletes should demand these tremendous amounts of money. This is why you have to put into question their reasoning for demanding

The passages present a discussion about arguments concerning whether or not professional athletes are overpaid. This is an important debate since professional sports represents a multi-billion-dollar-per-year industry. The two positions argue whether or not professional athletes should be paid the large yearly salaries they are paid. Both viewpoints have valid claims warranting consideration. For example, evidence suggests that people with far more important jobs are paid much less than professional athletes; in contrast, opposing evidence suggests that since professional athletes generally have short careers and must train very hard to build and maintain their skills, the higher salary is justified. While both sides of the issue have valid points, the viewpoint that professional athletes are not overpaid is the best-supported position, the position supported by the preponderance of the evidence cited in the passages. The strongest and best reasons supporting this position are that professional athletes must endure grueling and intensive training, they generally have short careers that often end in injury, and the amount that they are thought to be paid is often inflated. Accordingly, these reasons and opposing viewpoints will be discussed next.

Consequently, the unbelievably low percentage of athletes who excel displays the high rate of failure for the vast majority of athletes. This effects athletes who dream of furthering their potential to the collegiate level. Additionally, the main effect is rather blatant, as the athletes and coaches lack to find the success they desire. Everybody is effected differently from this, as some may be harsher on themselves. Also, many seek to generate scholarship money, popularity, and in extreme cases, playing professionally. Although it usually only effects athletes, there are times in which parents, coaches, and other close members are effected. The glory of this issue is that the majority of high school athletes do not intend on excelling in their sport, as they would rather enjoy the game. Of course luck is critical in this, as many athletes are injury prone, or naturally un-athletic. Furthermore, the solution of excelling in this prestigious sport is attaining the proper knowledge to develop your skills, and possessing an unmatched work

As I divulged earlier, my father proclaimed his small amount of local stardom through athletics. Not only as a player, but also as a coach. When I gained the chance to indulge in sports I hopped right onto the opportunity and never second guessed it. Athletics was my outlet to escape the shadow cast over me, though I sometimes drew comparisons to my elder I never was ashamed because even though I was still stereotyped because I realized all the great things I was being compared to. Eventually as my participation in sports grew more, it took me into school athletics. As I was learning about prejudice while growing and maturing, I felt the most apparent stereotype of all athletes, “all athletes are done”. After being informed and feeling the effects it can have on you, I prided myself on destroying that preconception and proving to all that athletes have to do both to do what they love. Stereotyping and prejudice actions take away from what we love to do. All of these biased tales destruct the differences that make our world beautiful and societies differently. Stereotyping also crumbles the idea of some opportunities for various races, sexualities, ages, social and economic classes. Prejudice, stereotypes, and propaganda used to incorrectly diminish hope among individuals, which in return brings down the future of the

Do you want to be a successful athlete? There are many athletes around the world, but only a few will become the greatest of all time. The article “The Nine Mental Skills of Successful Athletes” discusses how being a successful athlete, does not necessarily mean that you have to be an Olympian. It means that the athlete is committed to being the best they can within the range of their limitations(Lesyk). Athletes like this feel as if the sport enhances their life and they feel as if what they get back is worth all the blood, sweat, and tears that are put into the sport(Leysk). Every athlete says that they want to be the best, but as Stephen C. Hogan says, ”you can’t have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic” (Hogan).Explain.Only

Another factor was the constant teammate I had no matter which sport I played, my twin brother. Since we competed at everything else, sports were just another means to establishing who was better. I was motivated in developing my game equal to that of my brother’s, matching skill for skill, making sure that he never had the upper hand. The major failures of my career were also important lessons in learning that there was always room for improving and working even harder. For instance, losing the middle school soccer championship game and failing to make the soccer team in high school taught me that no matter how much time I put into practicing, I wouldn’t always be the best. The disappointments also encouraged me towards major accomplishments, allowing me to appreciate my past disappointments. Just as Amy Tan informed readers after her mother’s lesson in cultural pride that “it wasn’t until many years later…that I was able to appreciate her lesson”, it wasn’t until after I had made the basketball team for my high school that I was able to appreciate the failure to make the soccer team. By the same token as my student life, the numerous awards and trophies gained from competing became constant reminders of what hard work could earn.

Athletes encounter failure every time they step out onto the court or field; but it is how they cope with that failure that makes them successful. In my life, I have experienced failure a countless

While the entertainment and sports industry is very highly valued and many of its stars make well over six figures, not all professional athletes achieve such high heights in salary and prestige. It is worth mentioning that most athletes make anywhere from $40,000-$80,000 annually on average, but professional athletes signed to teams in sports leagues like the National Basketball Association make upwards of $10 million on average, with the numbers only increasing with seniority. Those salaries are disproportionately distributed, to say the least, especially when noting the contributions athletes make to society in comparison to many of the other service careers, such as the aforementioned medical professionals. This is not to cast aside the hard work and dedication of the professional athletes who’ve achieved such heights, as it requires a great deal of perseverance to pursue athleticism as a career. Athleticism is an often  unstable career that as often as not can waste all the commitment so many put into it over the course of their life.