Leigh steinberg

Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.

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.

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans,...

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

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.

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.

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.

I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used...

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.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.