Why do I hate professional

Why do I hate professional athletes for the most part? Let's ask the Atlanta Braves' John Rocker:

"The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners,'' he went on. "You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?''

And don't get me started on football players...