Leigh Steinberg Quotes
"I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Experience, Life)
"Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Fathers, Founding, Hair, Today, Trying)
"I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Motivation, Economics)
"I ran track, and basically played every sport."
- Leigh Steinberg
"Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Years)
"I try to live in the moment, every moment."
- Leigh Steinberg
"I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Life)
"In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Abuse, Alcohol, Athletes, Fans, Reality, Violence)
"It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Time, Day, First, School)
"Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Love, Angels)
"You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Sports, Washington)
"Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!"
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Work, Values, Needs, Reflection)
"When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Age, Being, Football, Future)
"Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Play)
"Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Baseball, Favorite)
"We're all negotiators."
- Leigh Steinberg
"We live in a niche world."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: World)
"Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Football, Kids, Now, Self)
"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Expertise)
"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Comedians, Country, Hollywood, Running)
"Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Basketball, Football)
"The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: People)
"School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Freedom, School)
"The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Physics, Today)
"Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Challenge)
"Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Force, Now)
"Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Being)
"We can always find creative ways to do things."
- Leigh Steinberg
"The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Leading, Man)
"But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Truth, Growing up, Nothing)
"But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Time, Now)
"Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Interest, Open)
"As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: Time, Football)
"Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen."
- Leigh Steinberg
(Related: People, Athletes, Football, Managers)