Life is good. Football is better. Steve Sabol More Quotes by Steve Sabol More Quotes From Steve Sabol Life is great, football is better. Steve Sabol great-football life-is-great football My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’ Steve Sabol gentleman used father 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. Steve Sabol dad heart believe 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 team struggle football 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 games football 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. Steve Sabol decision heart littles 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 struggle football kids 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 duplicate perfect 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. Steve Sabol autumn song fun 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. Steve Sabol goal running men 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 nfl people years 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. Steve Sabol zanzibar morocco names 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 rights father years 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 nfl sunday games I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe. Steve Sabol college ease europe I always was fascinated by neat nicknames. Steve Sabol neat nicknames fascinated 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 fighting perfect mean I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means. Steve Sabol knowledge-and-power mean thinking 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. Steve Sabol names heart football 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. Steve Sabol autumn fun wind
