Leigh Steinberg Quotes
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The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.
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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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As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.
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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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I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.
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Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
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So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.
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People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.
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We can always find creative ways to do things.
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You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
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Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
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We live in a niche world.
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But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.
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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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Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
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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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I ran track, and basically played every sport.
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A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.
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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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I try to live in the moment, every moment.
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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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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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School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.
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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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The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
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Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.
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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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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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Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.
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Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.
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