# Highest Paid Athletes
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/highest-paid-athletes/189797
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [May 8, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/highest-paid-athletes/189797 "2007-05-08T10:20:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@bics56](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bics56)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/highest-paid-athletes/189797/1 "2007-05-08T10:20:33Z")
Kinda neat to see who makes what…Tiger topped the list at 87 million last year.
[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11961246/](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11961246/)
> • Andre Agassi 35 $26.2 million
> • Lance Armstrong 34 $28 million
> • David Beckham 30 $32.5 million
> • Kobe Bryant 27 $28.8 million
> • Lindsay Davenport 29 $6 million
> • Oscar De La Hoya 33 $38 million
> • Jeff Gordon 34 $23.4 million
> • Matt Hasselbeck 30 $22.8 million
> • LeBron James 21 $22.9 million
> • Derek Jeter 31 $25.5 million
> • Walter Jones 32 $23.2 million
> • Michael Jordan 43 $33 million
> • Phil Mickelson 35 $26.8 million
> • Shaquille O’Neal 34 $33.4 million
> • Manny Ramirez 35 $24.2 million
> • Alex Rodriguez 30 $27.5 million
> • Ronaldo 29 $23 million
> • Valentino Rossi 27 $28 million
> • Michael Schumacher 37 $60 million
> • Maria Sharapova 18 $18.2 million
> • Annika Sorenstam 35 $7.3 million
> • Michael Vick 25 $37.5 million
> • Serena Williams 24 $12.7 million
> • Venus Williams 25 $6.5 million
> • Tiger Woods 30 $87 million
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### Author:  [@SSsuperchargedE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SSsuperchargedE)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/highest-paid-athletes/189797/2 "2007-05-08T15:44:01Z")
must be hard to be Tiger…
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### Author:  [@4doors5gears](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/4doors5gears)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/highest-paid-athletes/189797/3 "2007-05-08T22:19:53Z")
Yea and how many of those assholes actually do anything that’s worth what they make.
cougha-rodcough
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### Author:  [@bgblockelcamino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bgblockelcamino)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/highest-paid-athletes/189797/4 "2007-05-08T22:31:42Z")
sports are overrated
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### Author:  [@wrayzor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/wrayzor)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/highest-paid-athletes/189797/5 "2007-05-09T02:22:47Z")
> [@TW and Bit Torrent](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tw-and-bit-torrent/29919/10):
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> Yea and how many of those assholes actually do anything that’s worth what they make.
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> cougha-rodcough
michael shumacher, thats takes some balls to race in the rain like F1 does
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### Author:  [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/highest-paid-athletes/189797/6 "2007-05-09T05:38:08Z")
> [@Attn: CAMPERS!!!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attn-campers/30067/10):
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> sports are overrated
so are straight girls
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### Author:  [@4doors5gears](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/4doors5gears)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/highest-paid-athletes/189797/7 "2007-05-09T06:30:24Z")
> [@TW and Bit Torrent](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tw-and-bit-torrent/29919/11):
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> michael shumacher, thats takes some balls to race in the rain like F1 does
Right, which is why I didn’t say “_None_ of those assholes are worth what they make”
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### Author:  [@bics56](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bics56)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/highest-paid-athletes/189797/8 "2007-05-09T07:09:44Z")
> [@FS: 1996 Lexus ES300](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-1996-lexus-es300/30014/3):
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> Right, which is why I didn’t say “_None_ of those assholes are worth what they make”
No none of them are “worth” that $$…when you think there are people who put their lives on the line to protect us and get like $50,000 a year…think of it:
50,000/60,000,000 = 0.0000833…which is 0.0833% …so not even 1/100 of what that guy makes to drive a car.
But making money is all about entertaining people…not protecting them
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### Author:  [@bics56](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bics56)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2007, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/highest-paid-athletes/189797/9 "2007-05-10T05:52:44Z")
Here is the real list…that one was the highest “chosen” by …
[http://www.forbes.com/lists/results.jhtml?passListId=2&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&searchParameter1=unset&searchParameter2=unset&resultsStart=1&resultsHowMany=25&resultsSortProperties=-numberfield2%2C%2Bnumberfield1&resultsSortCategoryName=Pay+(%24mil)&passKeyword=&category1=Category&category2=Category](http://www.forbes.com/lists/results.jhtml?passListId=2&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&searchParameter1=unset&searchParameter2=unset&resultsStart=1&resultsHowMany=25&resultsSortProperties=-numberfield2%2C%2Bnumberfield1&resultsSortCategoryName=Pay+%28%24mil%29&passKeyword=&category1=Category&category2=Category)