Leigh Steinberg

Businessman

34 Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

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

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

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

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.

We live in a niche world.

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.

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

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.

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.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

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

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

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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