Leigh Steinberg Quotes

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.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation .

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.

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.

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

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.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

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.

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.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

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.

Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

I ran track, and basically played every sport.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.

A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

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.

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

We live in a niche world.

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.

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.