105 Quotes by Leigh Steinberg

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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 .