If sports has anything to do for society, football plays a great role. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I can hit the whiskers on a cat with a football from a distance of forty yards. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I can't imagine as a rookie actually playing good football. I went through it. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
When it's all over I might be able to say I've had the strangest career in pro football history. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I loved the expectation that every year we were going to the Super Bowl. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I always say football is very unnatural sport. Nobody loves to just ram into people. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
A lot of what you get done in the NFL is by perception. They perceive you as really talented, and they worry… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
Some of the great John Wayne hero things that have ever happened in football happened because people play hurt. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
There are a lot of places you can play quarterback and you won't know. You won't know if you're good or bad… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I don't think my experience with professional football has been what you'd call normal but I don't regret it. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
There's a negative effect when you run around without exhausting everything that happens with the play call. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
My biggest problem when I was younger was trying to balance my ability with what the team needed me to do to… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
If you're playing for 10 or 15 years, you can't every week run six option plays. It can be around. It can… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
Peyton Manning, you look at his physical abilities, there are a lot of things that are middle of the road. But his… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I think when you look at the quarterback position, and this mastery of the craft we talk about, it really is an… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
My goal--and this is kind of my own little secret--but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and,… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
You can be an astronaut, knowing it can be super dangerous but understand intuitively what the risk issues are. Not having the… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
So the truth is, if there's a lesson to be learned from mobile quarterbacks, it is deliver the ball from the pocket,… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
The demands of excellent NFL quarterbacking I always said took every piece of me, emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. It was like it… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I always look at the NBA as kind of a muddled mess in the regular season, and then you just get in… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
The great thing about football is that it's a game that involves so many people. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
The truth is that in the NFL, the job is to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the job. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
My generation, people who played with me, they're suffering from football. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
Playing football in San Francisco was almost a transcendental experience. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
People don't remember that Sid Gillman was my coach. He was an old crotchety guy, but he was the first one to basically say,… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California.… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
Brett Favre plays for championships. That's the only reason he puts up with all of this stuff. He's going to start to figure out,… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [ Van Zandt] talking about "For the sake of the song"; it's all that… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
The demands of excellent NFL quarterbacking I always said took every piece of me, emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. It was like it just took… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
My generation, people who played with me, they're suffering from football. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
If I could have my kids be great when the lights are on, whatever the moment is, to be accountable and then fix it,… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved to Nashville… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
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![“All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [ Van Zandt] talking about "For the sake of the song"; it's all that mattered. In spite of me a couple of things happened, mainly the Eagles and Seven Bridges Road. That certainly helped me survive. Joan Baez, Rita Coolidge, and Ian Matthews did…” quote by Steve Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/053/steve-young-2710_bridges_all-i-cared-about-was-the-music-like-hea_124821.jpg)
![“I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved to Nashville years later, one night I went to a Harlan Howard Guitar Pull thing, and there was Waylon. He started talking about how much he loved my work and how great I was, and I couldn't…” quote by Steve Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/81f/steve-young-2710_expected_i-had-admired-waylon-jennings-but-i-neve_220530.jpg)