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Portrait of Steve Young

Steve Young

(1961) American Football Player

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Steve Young is an American football player, best known for All about-- music technology in worship.

Quick Facts About Steve Young

Born: October 11, 1961
Profession: American Football Player
Notable works: All about-- music technology in worship

About Steve Young

Jon Steven Young is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, primarily with the San Francisco 49ers. He previously played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who drafted him. Prior to his NFL career, Young played for the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League (USFL) for two seasons. He played college football for the BYU Cougars, setting school and NCAA records.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Steve Young · Page 4

If you're playing for 10 or 15 years, you can't every week run six option plays. It can be around. It can…

Around

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My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

Accountability

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51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

Guitar

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I think Tom Coughlin is an amazing motivator. When you look at his personality, you say, 'Oh, I don't know about that.'…

Amazing

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I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES…

Body

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

Couple

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Success is really about expertise.

About

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I got good grades. I played sports.

Good

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

Championship

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My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something…

Done

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Private equity is a science project for many, many years, and when you have a science project, it leaves the human beings…

Equity

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I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that…

Bluegrass

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I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the…

Admire

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

Ball

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I'm playing a D-28 Martin that I've had about 20 years or so. I've got a '51 Martin and I thought I…

Guitar

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Over time, I learned that how a quarterback moves the chains and leads his team to touchdowns is about as important as…

Chains

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Bill Walsh was a genius in many ways.

Bill

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Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

Dreams

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I can hit the whiskers on a cat with a football from a distance of forty yards.

Cat

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I was a young folk singer, or wanted to be. I really wanted to be a New England folk singer, but they…

Accept me

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Golf is one of those games that I want my kids to know and learn so that they can play it all…

Games

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The principle is competing against yourself.

Athlete

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No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.

Clark

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I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow…

Black

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I always look at the NBA as kind of a muddled mess in the regular season, and then you just get in…

Always

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