Steve Sabol Quotes

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

Fun, Weather, Sea

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

Music, End, Game

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

Money, Father, Game

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

Time, Greatest, Fight

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

Business, Technology, Father

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

Film, Actually, Miss

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.
Steve Sabol

Football, Emotions, Films

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.
Steve Sabol

Great, Game, Football

How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'
Steve Sabol

Music, Deep, Everything

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.
Steve Sabol

Neat, Fascinated, Nicknames

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.
Steve Sabol

Made, College, Europe

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

Sunday, Used, Games

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

Struggle, Game, Reality

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

Love, Art, Movies

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

Football, Remember, Making

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
Steve Sabol

Power, Knowledge, Try

I was kicked out of school one year for streaking.
Steve Sabol

School, Year, Kicked

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

Time, Woman, Single

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

Great, Freedom, Saying

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.
Steve Sabol

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

Love, Music, Football

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.
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Heart, Snow, Football

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

Movies, Dad, Mind

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

Creative, Vision, Read

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

Life, Waiting, Nothing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: October 2, 1942

Died: September 18, 2012

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