Athletes
Nolan Ryan Net Worth
Nolan Ryan's Net Worth as of 2024
$60 Million
Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. was born on the 31st January 1947 in Refugio, Texas USA, and is best known as a former professional baseball player, who is considered as the best ever pitcher in the MLB, with a record of 5,714 strikeouts. He played for the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers, and his career was active from 1966 to 1993. He is known as the CEO of the Texas Ranges as well. Currently, he works as an executive advisor to the owner of the Houston Astor.
Have you ever wondered how rich is Nolan Ryan? Sources estimate that Nolan Ryan’s net worth is $60 million, with the main source of this amount of money being his career as a professional baseball player. Additional to this, when he retired, he started working as a special assistant for the Houston Astros, which has also added to his net worth.
Nolan Ryan Net Worth $60 Million
Nolan Ryan is the youngest child of Lynn Nolan Ryan, Sr., and Martha Lee Hancock Ryan. He was raised with five siblings. When he was a kid, he enjoyed throwing objects at any kind of target, which was spotted by his father who encouraged him to start playing baseball. At the age of nine, Ryan began playing baseball for Alvin Little League Baseball team, where he played in different positions besides pitcher. In the next few years, while he attended Alvin High School, he played for the team of Coach Jim Watson, where he started to show his baseball skills holding a strikeout record for a single game. In 1963, Red Murff – a baseball scout of New York Mets – noticed him for the first time and he was entranced. Thus, Ryan’s professional baseball career began as early as 1965, when he was finally selected by the New York Mets as a pick from the 12th round of the 1965 MLB Draft. However, he didn’t manage to enter the roster, and was sent to the Marion Mets of the Appalachian League. Thanks to good games, he rejoined the New York Mets the next year.
He stayed with Mets until 1971, and won his only World Champion series in 1969. In 1972 he was traded to the California Angels, where he stayed until 1979. During his tenure at the Angels, he managed to feature in five All-Star selections, in 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, and 1979. His contract ended after the 1979 season, and he became a free agent, but soon signed a contract with the Houston Astros, which increased his net worth by a large margin, and he stayed with the team until 1989. He continued with excellent performances, and earned three more All-Star appearances in 1981, 1985, and 1989. In 1989, Nolan left the Astros after a contract dispute, and signed with Texas Rangers, staying with the team until his retirement in 1993.
To speak of his accomplishments, Ryan was named Strikeout Leader 11 times in his career, and was twice named as NL ERA Leader. He holds the record of 5,714 career strikeouts and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999. Ryan was also elected into the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame in, and Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame. One of his highest honors is throwing the fastest baseball pitch in the world, with record of 100.9 miles per hour.
After retirement, Ryan became the owner of two minor baseball league clubs, Corpus Christi Hooks, and Round Rock Express. For a short time, Ryan was president of the Texas Rangers, and in 2010 bought the Rangers with Chuck Greenberg, becoming CEO of the team. The future success of the team increased Ryan’s net worth, but his net worth gained a boost again when he was hired as special assistant to the owner of the Houston Astros, Jim Crane.
Regarding his personal life, Nolan Ryan has been married to Ruth Holdorff, his sweetheart from high school, since 1967. The couple has three children, and the Ryan’s residence is currently in Georgetown, Austin. He is also active in politics.
Athletes
Tiger Woods Net Worth
Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods was born on 30 December 1975 in Cypress, California USA, of part-Chinese, and African- and Native- American (father) and Thai (mother) descent. He is one of the the world’s highest earning sportsmen, a professional golfer who was ranked number one in the world for a total of 545 weeks between in 1997 and 2010, and then for another 60 weeks in 2013-14, the most of any golfer, and during which period he won 119 tournaments on the PGA and European tours.
So just how rich is Tiger Woods? Regardless of the fact that Woods’ divorce from ex-wife Elin Nordegren (former Swedish model), cost him $100 million dollars – including $54.5 million in mortgage payment finalised in January 2016 – authoritative sources estimate that Tiger’s net worth is now still over $770 million, accumulated from golf prize money of around $160 million, and the rest from endorsements during a 20 year career, totalling overall more than $1.3 billion.
Tiger Woods Net Worth $770 Million
Encouraged by his father Earl, Tiger became a child golfing prodigy, already at the age of 3 putting against comedian Bob Hope. He was called on TV shows and published in Golf Digest magazine. He won age group events around the world from the age of eight, and being a 15 year-old teenager he became the youngest US Junior Amateur champion. He was educated at Western High School, Anaheim, but golf was his priority, and at 20 (1996), he became the first in golf history to win three consecutive US Amateur titles, while (apparently) studying at Stanford University.
Tiger then turned professional, and immediately signed multi-million dollar contracts with famous companies such as Nike and Titleist. Next year Woods won his first ‘major’, the US Masters, and achieved number one world ranking, the youngest and the fastest to get to that position. The list of his winnings is endless and achievements too many to mention, but apart from aforementioned 79 victories in the USA and Europe – only Sam Snead has won more(82) – he has won two Japan Golf Tour events, an Asian Tour event, one PGA Tour of Australasia event, as well as 21 titles as an amateur. Of particular significance is that Tiger has won 14 ‘major’ titles, second only behind Jack Nicklaus(18), which has included the ‘grand slam’ of golf three times. In addition, he had been awarded PGA Player of the year 11 times and the Byron Nelson award eight times. There can be no doubt that Tiger Woods has earned his net worth.
Woods is considered the most successful player of all times, partly because of his winning record, but also because he is the first and the only golfer to have earned more than a billion dollars. This fortune was made not only by playing golf, but also by signing very lucrative contracts with companies such as Rolex, General Motors, American Express, and Gatorade apart from Titleist and Nike, and becoming an ambassador for Gillette. Moreover, the businesses of Tiger Woods Foundation which promotes golf, and Tiger Woods Design which is involved with golf courses development, are also very profitable. The athlete is a published writer with “How I Play Golf” as well, which has brought him steady income from 1.5 million copies sold. He has also written a column for the magazine “Golf Digest’ – presumably both added to his net worth.
Following his very public divorce from Elin Nordegren who he married in 2004 – they divorced in 2010 and have two children – also involving details of infidelity over the years, Tiger Woods dated Olympic Games skiing gold medallist Lindsey Vonn for a couple of years, but apparently no more. He was raised a Buddhist, and professes to still follow the teachings.
Athletes
Roger Federer Net Worth
Roger Federer was born on 8 August 1981, in Basel, Switzerland to Robert and Lynette Federer, the latter’s South African descent entitling Federer to hold both Swiss and South African citizenship. Roger is perceived by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time, and this title could well be deserved both in successes on the court and maintenance at the highest level, plus his sporting personality rarely equalled in professional sportspeople.
So just how rich is Roger Federer? This outstanding professional tennis player is estimated to have a current net worth of $420 million, increasing momentarily as he continues to play most weeks of the year, and annual prize money plus endorsements can approach $100 million.
Roger Federer Net Worth $420 Million
Roger Federer first became interested in tennis when he was still a child. Starting school at six years of age, he quickly became the best tennis player in his age group. Eight years later he became the national age group champion, and was sent to train at the Swiss National Tennis Centre in Ecublens.In 1998 he won the ITF junior singles tournament and became the ITF Champion of the Year. After that his career skyrocketed. As of mid-2015, the Swiss-born athlete holds the record for ranking in the ATP No. 1 position for 237 consecutive weeks (from 2004 to 2008), and in total 302 weeks. The tennis icon has appeared in 25 Grand Slam finals and won seventeen of them. He has broken numerous records playing in these tournaments, including the record for 10 consecutive finals, and has acheived a Grand Slam of titles, plus jointly holding the record of seven Wibledon titles (with Pete Sampras) and five US titles (with Sampras and Jimmy Connors). During his long career, Federer has won over 80 tournaments in total, and it has been reported that he has won more prize money than any other player, although this is difficult to establish as values constantly change in comparison with previous champions.
Roger Federer also earns a great deal of money from his endorsement contracts. He has signed long-term deals with Nike, Rolex, Wilson and Credit Suisse, and recently he decided to collaborate with champagne brand Moet & Chandon. In addition to being one of the best-paid athletes out there, his endorsement contracts are just as impressive, as he receives $40 million every year just from his sponsors! According to Forbes, he holds # 8 place in a list of 100 top-earning celebrities as of 2013. But despite his huge financial success and celebrity status, Roger Federer does not hold back when it comes to helping those in need. In 2003 together with his mother he established the Roger Federer Foundationin order to help disadvantaged people and promote a healthy lifestyle. He was also one of the most active celebrities to participate in organizing charities raising money for the victims of the Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004 and Haiti earthquake in 2010.
He is fluent in Swiss-German, German, French and English languages. Like all men in Switzerland, Federer was supposed to serve in the Swiss army, but in 2003 he was released from this duty because of continuous back pain. Roger Federer, who is often called Maestro, is married to the former professional tennis player Miroslava Vavrinec. They met at the 2000 Sydney Olympics where she was competing as well. Due to a foot injury she retired from professional sports and now manages her husband’s public relations. In 2009 the couple married in Basel , and has two sets of twins – twin boys and twin girls.
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