67 Quotes by Steve Sabol

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.

I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play?

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.

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

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.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull,

How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.