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
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.
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.
School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.
People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.
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.
Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!
Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.
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.
As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
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.
You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.