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Top 25 Steve Sabol Quotes (2025 Update)

Steve Sabol Quote: “Life is great, football is better.”

1. “Life is great, football is better.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.”

2. “Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s not being noticed.”

3. “If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s not being noticed.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “That helped us nurture not only the game’s traditions but to develop its mythology: America’s Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.”

4. “That helped us nurture not only the game’s traditions but to develop its mythology: America’s Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn’t the score that interested me, it was the struggle.”

5. “To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn’t the score that interested me, it was the struggle.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.”

6. “If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “My dad has a great expression. He always says, ‘Tell me a fact and I’ll learn, tell me the truth and I believe, but tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.’ Interestingly enough now, my dad’s story is going to be in Canton and hopefully that will live forever, too.”

7. “My dad has a great expression. He always says, ‘Tell me a fact and I’ll learn, tell me the truth and I believe, but tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.’ Interestingly enough now, my dad’s story is going to be in Canton and hopefully that will live forever, too.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.”

8. “Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “Live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. I realized today that if I stay on a path of gradual evolution into the man I ultimately want to become, I am going to run out of time before I reach the goal.”

9. “Live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. I realized today that if I stay on a path of gradual evolution into the man I ultimately want to become, I am going to run out of time before I reach the goal.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’”

10. “My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.”

11. “I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “I’ve always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with your heart.”

12. “I’ve always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with your heart.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers – they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.”

13. “My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers – they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.”

14. “NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he’s the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.”

15. “A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he’s the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn’t even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.”

16. “I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn’t even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I’ve lived down here, the football life. It’s been perfect.”

17. “But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I’ve lived down here, the football life. It’s been perfect.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “I don’t go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL’s Sunday Ticket. So I’ll watch the games, take notes.”

18. “I don’t go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL’s Sunday Ticket. So I’ll watch the games, take notes.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.”

19. “The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.”

20. “There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?”

21. “When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.”

22. “I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.”

23. “I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.”

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Steve Sabol Quote: “When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn’t even have a business plan.”

24. “When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn’t even have a business plan.”

— Steve Sabol

Steve Sabol Quote: “You know how I came up with the name ‘Road to the Super Bowl?’ It’s an homage to the old Bob Hope – Bing Crosby buddy movies – you know, like ‘Road to Zanzibar’ or ‘Road to Morocco.’ Can you tell? All I’ve done my whole life is go to movies.”

25. “You know how I came up with the name ‘Road to the Super Bowl?’ It’s an homage to the old Bob Hope – Bing Crosby buddy movies – you know, like ‘Road to Zanzibar’ or ‘Road to Morocco.’ Can you tell? All I’ve done my whole life is go to movies.”

— Steve Sabol

Steve Sabol Quote: “I was kicked out of school one year for streaking.”

26. “I was kicked out of school one year for streaking.”

— Steve Sabol

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