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Leigh Steinberg [1949-0] American

Rank: 102
Businessman, Sports agent

Leigh William Steinberg is an American sports agent. During his 41-year career, Steinberg has represented over 300 professional athletes in football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and Olympic sports.

Amazing, Graduation, Learning, Work

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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.	Graduation	101
Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.		102
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.	Amazing, Work	103
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.		104
Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!		105
The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.		106
The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.		107
I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.		108
It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.	Learning	109
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.		110
Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.		111
Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.		112
Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.		113
Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.		114
As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.		115
I try to live in the moment, every moment.		116
We can always find creative ways to do things.		117
I ran track, and basically played every sport.		118
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.		119
Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.		120
You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.		121
Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.		122
My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.		123
Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.		124
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.		125
But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.		126
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.		201
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.		202
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.		203
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.		204
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.		205
We're all negotiators.		206
School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.		207
I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.		208
We live in a niche world.		209

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