Top 35 Leigh Steinberg Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!”

— Leigh Steinberg

2. “I try to live in the moment, every moment.”

— Leigh Steinberg

3. “I’d like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared – it’s an everyday part of life.”

— Leigh Steinberg

4. “Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.”

— Leigh Steinberg

5. “Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.”

— Leigh Steinberg

6. “Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.”

— Leigh Steinberg

7. “People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.”

— Leigh Steinberg

8. “Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.”

— Leigh Steinberg

9. “So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.”

— Leigh Steinberg

10. “I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.”

— Leigh Steinberg

11. “It’s learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy – whether it’s for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.”

— Leigh Steinberg

12. “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.”

— Leigh Steinberg

13. “But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.”

— Leigh Steinberg

14. “We can always find creative ways to do things.”

— Leigh Steinberg

15. “School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.”

— Leigh Steinberg

16. “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.”

— Leigh Steinberg

17. “Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don’t know what happened to my Dodgers.”

— Leigh Steinberg

18. “We live in a niche world.”

— Leigh Steinberg

19. “But the equipment to protect the players hasn’t developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.”

— Leigh Steinberg

20. “I ran track, and basically played every sport.”

— Leigh Steinberg

21. “Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting – or the authorities even prosecuting – a pro athlete were practically nil.”

— Leigh Steinberg

22. “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.”

— Leigh Steinberg

23. “My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that’s where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.”

— Leigh Steinberg

24. “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.”

— Leigh Steinberg

25. “As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person’s position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.”

— Leigh Steinberg

26. “You know, we don’t look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.”

— Leigh Steinberg

27. “Well, when you’ve had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.”

— Leigh Steinberg

28. “When it comes to holdouts, there’s a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who’s defying authority and only cares about the money.”

— Leigh Steinberg

29. “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.”

— Leigh Steinberg

30. “A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.”

— Leigh Steinberg

31. “The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.”

— Leigh Steinberg

32. “Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.”

— Leigh Steinberg

33. “Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.”

— Leigh Steinberg

34. “Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.”

— Leigh Steinberg

35. “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.”

— Leigh Steinberg

36. “The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.”

— Leigh Steinberg