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
The cost is minimal compared to the human cost and the enormous investments that these teams make in training and in contractual commitments to contemporary NFL players,
In the pantheon of negotiating, it's one of those clauses where there's the least resistance.
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.
Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.
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.
Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.
We can always find creative ways to do things.
School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.
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.
The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.