Steve Sabol Quotes

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Life is great, football is better.

Steve Sabol

Football, Great Football, Life Is Great

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Life is good. Football is better.

Steve Sabol

Football, Life Is Good, Life Is

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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

Father, Gentleman, Used

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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.

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Dad, Believe, Heart

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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

Movie, Football, Games

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Running, Men, Goal

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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

Football, Struggle, Kids

"The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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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

Football, Team, Struggle

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Heart, Decision, Littles

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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

Heart, Nfl, Focus

"The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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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.

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New Orleans, Nfl, Broken

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Years, Nfl, People

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Song, Fun, Autumn

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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?

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Football, Play, Perspective

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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

Artist, Ideas, Two

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Sports, Art, Player

"The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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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.

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Football, Heart, Names

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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

Football, Perfect, Duplicate

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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

Mean, Fighting, Perfect

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

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Sports, Football, Emotion

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Fun, Autumn, Wind

"Steve Sabol, Cinematic Force for N.F.L., Dies at 69" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. September 18, 2012.

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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.

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Brother, Jobs, Dad

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Names, Zanzibar, Morocco

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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?

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Father, Rights, Years

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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

Team, Games, America

"Steve Sabol dies at age 69". www.espn.com. September 19, 2012.

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Born: October 2, 1942
Died: September 18, 2012
Occupation: Filmmaker
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