Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

There's never a benefit to bragging too much about a deal because the only sure thing is that I'm probably going to be dealing with that same general manager or that same person over and over again.

I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.

We live in a niche world.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.