Top 41 Leigh Steinberg Quotes
#1. As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.
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#2. Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.
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#3. When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.
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#4. The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another
negotiation .
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#5. The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.
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#6. Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.
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#8. Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.
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#9. Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
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#11. School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.
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#12. So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.
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#13. 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.
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#15. A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.
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#16. 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.
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#17. My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.
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#18. Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
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#19. 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.
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#21. Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
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#22. 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.
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#23. I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.
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#24. It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.
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#26. People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.
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#27. 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.
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#28. Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
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#29. 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.
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#30. As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
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#31. The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
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#32. Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.
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#33. 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.
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#34. Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!
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#35. Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan ... and later came to football.
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#36. There's never a benefit to bragging too much about a deal because the only sure thing is that I'm probably going to be dealing with that same general manager or that same person over and over again.
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#37. I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.
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#38. 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.
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#39. But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.
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#40. You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
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#41. 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.
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