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Life is good. Football is better.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Football
Life Is
Life Is Good
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Life is great, football is better.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Football
Great Football
Life Is Great
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I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Fascinated
Neat
Nicknames
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I was kicked out of school one year for streaking.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
School
Years
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Holy Grail
One Piece
Top Gear
Noticed
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Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Football
Games
Player
Great Football Game
Football Players
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The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Artist
Importance
Language
Bringing
Signs
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Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Sports
Capture
Emotion
Football
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I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Boards
College
Ease
Europe
Harvard
Blew
Tour
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I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Knowledge And Power
Mean
Nfl
Thinking
Knowledge Power Knowledge Is Power
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My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Father
Gentleman
Used
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How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Nfl
Throat
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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.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Games
Nfl
Notes
Sunday
Ticket
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That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
America
Games
Team
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I've always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with your heart.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Decision
Heart
Littles
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The autumn wind is a Raider, / Pillaging just for fun; / He'll knock you around, / And upside down, / And laugh when he's conquered and won.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Autumn
Fun
Wind
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The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Endeavor
Pro Football
World War Ii
Pass
Pro
World War
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To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Kids
Football
Score
Struggle
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I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.'
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Citizen Kane
Gun
Pro Football
Remember When
Citizen
Whistle
Pro
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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.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Complicated
Falling In Love
Football
Thinking
Angles
Camera
Falling
Two People
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We see the game as art as much as sport. That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Frozen
Mythology
Nurture
Catch
Develop
Traditions
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NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Capture
Greek Mythology
Mythology
Nfl
People
Timeless
Years
Continuous
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A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Fighting
Mean
Perfect
Heavyweight
Heavyweight Champion
Marciano
Rocky
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Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Football
Heart
Names
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Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud... He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Certain
Football
Magic
Mud
November
Pro Football
Remains
Snow
Lingers
Pro
Pumping
Speaks
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But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Duplicate
Football
Perfect
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Covering a Super Bowl is actually one of the easiest things we do because our most experienced people are there. We'll have 25,000 feet of film and there's no way you're going to miss anything.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Covering
Feet
Super Bowl
Miss
Bowl
Easiest
Experienced
Super
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When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Little Bit
Mythology
Nfl
Photography
Scripts
Created
Sport
Our Music
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All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Approach
Millions
Nfl
Business Technology People
Touch
Button
Millions Of People
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Live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. I realized today that if I stay on a path of gradual evolution into the man I ultimately want to become, I am going to run out of time before I reach the goal.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Running
Men
Goal
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My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Jobs
Dad
Brother
Ritz
Movies Dad Always
Below
Brothers
Failed
Hat
Marx
Sold
Straw
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You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Buddy
Crosby
Homage
Morocco
Names
Super Bowl
Zanzibar
Bing
Bowl
Came
Super
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There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Bears
Bowls
Broken
Hotel
January
Luck
New Orleans
Nfl
Nine
Poisoning
Twice
Best Food Day
Hotel Room
Orleans
Patriots
Robbed
Super
Super Bowls
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The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Autumn
Beaten
Fun
Pirate
Sea
Silver
Song
Wind
Face
Hat
Head
His
Raider
Wears
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When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Decision
Focus
Focus Groups
Groups
Heart
Nfl
Surveys
Beginning
Demographic
Heads
Hearts
Plan
Studies
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So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Duplicate
Heaven
Waiting
Life Football Me
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My dad has a great expression. He always says, 'Tell me a fact and I'll learn, tell me the truth and I believe, but tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.' Interestingly enough now, my dad's story is going to be in Canton and hopefully that will live forever, too.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Dad
Believe
Heart
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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.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Combat
Elements
Football
Fourth
Grounded
Narrative
Reality
Struggle
Team
Warrior
Against
Since
Almost
Game
Loved
Grade
Mythic
Physical
Turned
Uniform
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When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Championship
Father
Nfl
Rights
Worthless
Years
Bid
Double
Huge Amount
Relatively
Seemed
So Much Money
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We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the 'cubistic' treatment of shooting football. It was the same thing Picasso did except we did it with a football play. It's taking a single image and looking at it from multiple perspectives.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Different Angles
Multiple
Shooting
Treatment
Angles
Image
Perspectives
Picasso
Same Thing
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I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Art
Sports
Coaches
Nfl
Player
Love Art Movies
Convey
Sell
Expressed
Making Movies
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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.'
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Treatment
Freedom From
Types
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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'.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Artist
Ideas
Two
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Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Inspirational
Movie
Amplify
Ballet
Battleground
Big Movie
Chess
Football
Football Field
Games
Glorify
Narration
Strategy
Theatre
Game
Clarify
Part
Create
Field
Footage
Look
In The End
Piece
Playground
Screen
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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?
Steve Sabol / Filmmaker
Canvas
Fascinated
Football
Moments
Multiple
Perspective
Play
Time Always Football
Perspectives
Picasso
Same Thing
Three-Dimensional
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