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We live in a niche world.
I try to live in the moment, every moment.
Sometimes to win, you have to change the game.
We can always find creative ways to do things.
I ran track, and basically played every sport.
Every kid wants to give their family a better life.
Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.
I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.
The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.
So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.
If you are running anyway, you might as well be chasing your dreams.
The rule should be HS students should be allowed to pursue their career
The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.
Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.
But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.
Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
He's one of the greatest players in the world, if not one of the greatest anywhere.
The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation .
You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.
When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients
If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.
NBA gets to see these players develop more..Did Lebron need another year, Did Kobe need another year
My hope is next year Terry and I can work out a contract. I have no problem with the Minnesota Twins.
Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.
A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.
Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.
Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
Drew is a player that comes along once every 20 years. Not even Barry Bonds can be compared to J.D. Drew.
I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.
Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.
School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.
My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.
People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
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.
People call me all the time and say, “Man, your players aren't signed yet.” Well, it doesn't really matter what time dinner is when you're the steak.
When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
Ideally, I would like to be in a position where I represent 100 guys in the NFL, to be in a position where I could control whether some teams win or lose.
People say what we're doing is holding out when in reality the teams are trying to crush the draft market because they don't want to pay fair market value.
But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.
Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.
Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.
The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.
On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.
It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.