Steve Young

My dad's an old football player.

— Steve Young

My wife hates football, and my kids don't really care.

— Steve Young

Staying connected to the game and working for ESPN are very meaningful to me.

— Steve Young

Obviously, I love the idea of athletic quarterbacks.

— Steve Young

It's hard to explain anxiety to those who don't experience it.

— Steve Young

Call me a quarterback, not a running quarterback.

— Steve Young

I don't go out a lot. I do go to a lot of movies.

— Steve Young

I'm willing to share my experiences with any young quarterback.

— Steve Young

The great thing about football is that it's a game that involves so many people.

— Steve Young

Scrambling, when no one's around, getting down, getting out of bounds, taking a glancing blow, those are all fine. You can do…

— Steve Young

If you exhaust every play out of the pocket, what happens is you find more opportunities.

— Steve Young

You have to take certain truths. One truth is that to have championship success in the NFL you have to learn to…

— Steve Young

The pistol isn't going to go away, but the job in the long run is going to be to deliver the ball…

— Steve Young

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

— Steve Young

I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.

— Steve Young

You can play with a brain that is injured - you can't play with an injured knee. That's the problem.

— Steve Young

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with…

— Steve Young

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy…

— Steve Young

In 2010, my kids came home telling these ridiculous stories about me they heard from school. I realized my kids didn't know…

— Steve Young

James Burton was playing some pure roots stuff. Gram Parsons took an interest in that record [in '68-'69] and he admired it.…

— Steve Young

The demands of excellent NFL quarterbacking I always said took every piece of me, emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. It was like it…

— Steve Young

I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day…

— Steve Young

Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization…

— Steve Young

Everything you do in life is up to you. Part of life is realizing you have much more potential and ability than…

— Steve Young

I had a guy who went out of way to help me get started and somehow saw something in me. I couldn't…

— Steve Young

I think I always wanted to be quarterback so I could call the play.

— Steve Young

Most people have an off switch and they choose when to go all out.

— Steve Young

I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years,

— Steve Young

I loved the expectation that every year we were going to the Super Bowl.

— Steve Young

I am the recipient of the best coaching that one person has ever had.

— Steve Young

If sports has anything to do for society, football plays a great role.

— Steve Young

You don't know the demons people deal with, and you just have no idea.

— Steve Young

As a kid, I was fearless during the day. But at nighttime, I needed to be home.

— Steve Young

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

— Steve Young

If you're going to run a lot of plays, you better score a lot of points.

— Steve Young

I never asked to be the highest paid player in sports.

— Steve Young

I can't imagine as a rookie actually playing good football. I went through it.

— Steve Young

The principle is competing against yourself.

— Steve Young

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

— Steve Young

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

— Steve Young