Leigh Steinberg Quotes

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.

I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is - as a person as well as a player. You've got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

I am an Arsenal player and I don't think about anything else. I'm not going to say no to anybody, nor am I going to say yes to anybody. I did not say that I was going to leave Arsenal to go to Barcelona, because equally Barcelona doesn't want me.

He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.

To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.

I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

It's the nature of it. The players will want to compete at the highest level they possibly can.

The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very excessive and unrealistic demand.

All the time, players are forced to do their utmost. If they are challenged to the limit, is it really fun for them?

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.

We play the whole summer. I do think guys should be compensated. Just like I think college players should be compensated as well. Unfortunately, it's not there. But I think it should be something, you know, there for it.

You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.