Leigh Steinberg Quotes

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

I love the values football can teach. It gives young people a sense of how to defer present gratification for future success, it teaches self-discipline, it teaches teamwork, it gives them a bonding experience that can be hard to find somewhere else, it teaches the ability to process large amounts of information and apply it in real time.

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

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

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person’s position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

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