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

— Steve Sabol

#football #football players #game #great #players

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

— Steve Sabol

#deep #everything #films #hear #how

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#fascinated #i #i always #neat #nicknames

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

— Steve Sabol

#boards #college #ease #europe #harvard

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

#games #go #i #much #nfl

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

#art #artists #coaches #convey #doing

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

#citizen #citizen kane #ends #first #football

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. ↗

— George Santayana

#ground #pleasant #something #urged #well

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

#always #been #canvas #even #face

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

#been #come #every #freedom #freedom from