Leigh Steinberg on Sports, Agents, and Athletes

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🗓️ 4 March 2013

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Leigh Steinberg, legendary sports agent, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his career as a sports agent. He discusses the challenges of building a clientele, how sports agents spend their time, strategies for building a brand as an athlete, and safety issues currently affecting the National Football League.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:23.3	back to 2006.
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0:29.8	Today's February 26th, 2013, and my guest is Lee Steinberg, Legendary Sports Agents.
0:40.2	Lee, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:42.0	My pleasure to be here.
0:44.2	How'd you get started in the business?
0:45.8	It's a very competitive business that I think a lot of young people aspire to without thinking
0:50.7	too much about how hard it is to get that first client.
0:54.0	How did that happen for you?
0:56.4	I was living in the dorms as a dorm counselor at UC Berkeley, going to law school in the
1:04.1	early 70s, and they moved to freshman football team into the dorm.
1:10.2	And one of my counselies, who's Steve Bartkowski, who in 1975 went on to be the very first
1:17.2	selection in the NFL draft, the first pick in the first round, picked by the Atlanta Falcons.
1:24.8	And I had graduated and then traveled for a year.
1:31.1	When I got to Egypt, I jumped into the Nile River.
1:36.4	Only to find out later, there were about 111 diseases endemic to the Nile River.
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