Latest Leigh Steinberg Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Teamwork, Football, Real

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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

  Leigh Steinberg

  Emotional, People, Abuse

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• 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.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Athlete, Generations, Use

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• 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

  Player, Rebel, Care

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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

  Leigh Steinberg

  Player, Training, Rookies

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• 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

  Benefits, Too Much, Bragging

  Source: bleacherreport.com