Quotes by Steve Largent

About Steve Largent:

Stephen Michael "Steve" Largent is a retired American football player, enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a former Republican politician, having served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Oklahoma, from 1994 until 2002. In 2002, he was defeated in his run for Governor of Oklahoma in a three-way race in which he had been considered the frontrunner. Prior to his political career, Largent was a wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League for his entire 14-season professional football career. He held several all-time receiving records when he retired.
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Where is the harm in the wireless industry?

Steve Largent

When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.

Steve Largent

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Steve Largent

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

Steve Largent

There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

Steve Largent

Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.

Steve Largent

People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.

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People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.

Steve Largent

It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.

Steve Largent

It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing.

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It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.

Steve Largent

A child can escape the shadows.

Steve Largent

No culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has survived.

Steve Largent

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.

Steve Largent

Frequently I get asked if I'd rather have spent my career in a big city like New York or Los Angeles, where the exposure would be greater than in Seattle. My answer is no, not at all. Exposure is not important to me.

Steve Largent

I don't think I was a year too late or a year too early in retiring. If the Seahawks had been in the playoffs a year later, I might have had some regrets.

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I've always had this nightmare of going back to the Kingdome and seeing myself waddle in bald, overweight, with a big belly hanging over my belt, and I just imagine people going, 'That's Steve Largent?'

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I'm not bragging, but just going Sunday to Sunday, it will be a real rare game when I don't catch a pass.

Steve Largent

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

Steve Largent

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different...

Steve Largent

Author Bio

  • NameSteve Largent
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • BornSeptember 28, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician