Leigh Steinberg Quotes

We're all negotiators.

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

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

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

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

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.

For a generation that gets most of its information off a computer screen (be it Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or what have you), an athlete has to be very careful about the public/private aspect of that. Be careful not to be overly critical, be careful with use of language, and understand the whole world is watching.

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.

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.

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 try to live in the moment, every moment.

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

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

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

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.

I ran track, and basically played every sport.

We live in a niche world.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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