Quotes from Leigh Steinberg


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


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


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


I ran track, and basically played every sport.


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


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


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


We live in a niche world.


We're all negotiators.


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


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


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


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.


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 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.


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.


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.


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.


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


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.