Steve Sabol (Stephen Douglas Sabol) Quotes

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

Steve Sabol

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• TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • School
  • Character
  • Period

• Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Travel

• In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Age
  • Alone
  • Focus

• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Will

• If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Heart
  • Want
  • You

• I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Love
  • Animals
  • Chill

• If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Football
  • Sports

• There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Drinking

• When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stop

• There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Living
  • Prison
  • Walls

• It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Effort
  • Human
  • Race

• The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Why
  • Hate
  • First Amendment

• America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • America
  • Liberty
  • Individual

• If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Look
  • Talking

• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Work
  • Real
  • Movie

• As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Effort
  • Patience

• The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Truth

• And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Work
  • Long
  • Writing

• Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Player
  • Clever

• Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • People

• I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

  

  James Corden
  • Good
  • School
  • Wish

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

  

  Steve Sabol
  • Football
  • Emotions
  • Films