58 ordspråk av Leigh Steinberg
Leigh Steinberg
They are not getting hurt in some frivolous hobby. They are hurt applying themselves to the exact task they've been hired to do. This is a risk that ought to be shared in a fairer way.
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They used their college track coaches, the weight room on campus.
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This is a most unusual situation. It's hard to remember three more colorful or marketable figures coming out of college football.
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Today, you've got Grade-A linemen backed up by Grade-C people. Teams could move back to an era where Joe Montana was backed up by Steve Young who was backed up by Steve Bono. The better clubs with better management would once again be able to hang on to more talent.
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Ultimately, it will get done. If you peer into the apocalypse, there?s too much pain and chaos and consternation not to do a new (agreement). This sport is about to move into the greatest era of peace and prosperity of any entertainment form in America. Who wants to be the butcher that kills this?
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Ultimately, it will get done. If you peer into the apocalypse, there's too much pain and chaos and consternation not to do a new CBA. This sport is about to move into the greatest era of peace and prosperity of any entertainment form in America. Who wants to be the butcher that kills this?
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We can always find creative ways to do things.
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We can always find creative ways to do things. But I hope by draft time we will be beyond that. As teams peer into the abyss, as they peer into the apocalypse, sanity will return. When the NFLPA and management truly recognize the nature of no agreement, their intelligence and rationality will force them into making a deal.
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We didn't sign any long-term national product commitments because we were hoping what happened would happen.
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Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect and the incredibly lucrative ancillary revenue streams, both sides know we are on the verge of ushering in the most lucrative payday in the history of professional sports. The history of professional football is that nothing happens until the very last moment.
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Whatever the problems were [with the test] are going to be fixed. I don't believe that Ricky Williams has used drugs since the point he decided to return to the NFL [about] a year ago.
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When Ricky is using drugs, he tells the whole world about it. He's not a liar.
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Without referring to anybody directly, one of the problems with confrontational public negotiating is that it runs the risk of alienating a public with a median family income of $35,000. So that when a player is complaining publicly that he's only being paid $7-million a year instead of $9-million, a fan can look at that with real anger. And an owner who's challenged publicly may simply become more locked in and less apt to ever compromise.
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