Quotes By Leigh Steinberg

We live in a niche world.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

I ran track, and basically played every sport.

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

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

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.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

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.

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.

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.

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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