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
He was disappointed, but he's pretty resolute that he wants to play football. He's only 28. At the end of the year, he'll only be 29. He is still intent on having a career in the National Football League.
Five minutes later, he would turn, with a look of total sincerity, and ask the same questions, as if we had never discussed them. It was frightening to see how delicate was the boundary between rational consciousness and confusion.
Without referring to anybody directly, one of the problems with confrontational public negotiating is that it runs the risk of alienating a public with a median family income of $35,000. So that when a player is complaining publicly that he's only being paid $7-million a year instead of $9-million, a fan can look at that with real anger. And an owner who's challenged publicly may simply become more locked in and less apt to ever compromise.
When Ricky is using drugs, he tells the whole world about it. He's not a liar.
We didn't sign any long-term national product commitments because we were hoping what happened would happen.
The Redskins have done an excellent job of restructuring a number of contracts in anticipation of a deal (on the agreement) not being consummated.
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.
Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
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.
The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation .
Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect and the incredibly lucrative ancillary revenue streams, both sides know we are on the verge of ushering in the most lucrative payday in the history of professional sports. The history of professional football is that nothing happens until the very last moment.
As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.
A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.
Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.