Steve Sabol Quotes

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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football, 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.

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

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  Topics in College

• 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.

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• I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Technology

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football

• 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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• How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ to ‘Deep Throat.’

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  Tags in Music

• 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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• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football

• How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ to ‘Deep Throat.’

  Steve Sabol

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

• 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

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  Tags in Games

• I was kicked out of school one year for streaking.

  Steve Sabol

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  Tags in School, Kicked

• 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.

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  Tags in People, Complicated

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

  Steve Sabol

  Topics in Knowledge, Power

• 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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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Hated

• 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.’

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  Tags in Remember

• If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s not being noticed.

  Steve Sabol

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Steve Sabol (34)

Birth:	2nd October, 1942
Death:	18th September, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Entrepreneur, Narrator, Cameraman, Sports Filmmaker

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