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
I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.
I ran track, and basically played every sport.
We live in a niche world.
A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.
I try to live in the moment, every moment.
I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.
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 .
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.
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
The fun part of it was because he was across the street, he came over every day, and in essence, we had a surrogate son for a couple of weeks.
The first issue that needs solving is club vs. club. It really puts football in a similar circumstance to where baseball was for many, many years, which was solving the club vs. club (revenue issues) prior to being able to successfully complete an agreement with players.
The details and the process are in their court. But let me say that I am optimistic about the process. He's planning on returning.