Sports Agents Quotes

It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

The NCAA model is outdated. If Steve Serby's a great player in high school, and an agent wants to represent you and wants to advance you money as a loan based on the fact that you're gonna be a high draft choice, so be it.

I would advise that if you can get out on loan and play football, it is the best path to go down.

An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. They all say they can, but the people who do the drafting don't talk to agents. They talk to coaches, they watch film, they talk to the people who've worked with players. They don't talk to agents.

When young players become one of the best in the world, everyone wants to sign them.

I was only a 17-year-old lad when I played for Marsala, and while I didn't play much at Monza, that is where I met my agents, who are like brothers to me.

I was lucky to get a professional contract. I wasn't that sort of talent that is considered to be a professional player.

I'm not overlooked by NFL teams. That's the only thing I really care about.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

I got some cash from agents. I've talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.

I wasn't ready to get drafted in the first round.

I had more offers in football than baseball.

All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.

Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.

I think there were a lot of people at Mankato reaching out to the Vikings saying to just bring me in for a tryout.

Nowadays, of course, flesh peddlers and scouting services identify the best athletes when they are still in junior high. Prospects are not allowed to sneak up on us.