Leigh Steinberg
Leigh Steinberg
Leigh William Steinbergis an American sports agent. During his 41-year career, Steinberg has represented over 300 professional athletes in football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and Olympic sports. He has represented the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft a record eight times, a milestone unmatched within the sports industry. Steinberg is later credited as the real life inspiration of the sports agent from Cameron Crowe's film Jerry Maguire in 1996...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth27 March 1949
CountryUnited States of America
Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation .
Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.
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.
We can always find creative ways to do things.
People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.
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.
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.
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.
Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.
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 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.
I try to live in the moment, every moment.