Quotes from Steve Young

I wish I could've met my wife earlier. I do the math and I want 30 more years. I wish I'd started having kids earlier.

In 2010, my kids came home telling these ridiculous stories about me they heard from school. I realized my kids didn't know my story, and they were hearing it from the goofballs at school.

As the story about CTE got more real, it became more clear that players are playing that without a full understanding of the risks they face, and the long-term effects.

I played 18 seasons. That's a lot. There is some that played more. Brett Favre I think played a couple more. There is a few. There is a few guys that played more, but not many.

Private equity is a science project for many, many years, and when you have a science project, it leaves the human beings as a secondary fact.

I have a photographic memory that enables me to visualize what everyone in the huddle is supposed to do on each of the hundreds of plays in our playbook.

My favorite player I ever played was Reggie White. He played so ferociously. What I loved about playing against him was the millisecond you went down, he became your friend and would ask, 'How's your family?' In a way that could feel weird and awkward.

The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.

A lot of what you get done in the NFL is by perception. They perceive you as really talented, and they worry about you. You've got to come out of the locker room with something.

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

Success is really about expertise.

People always want to grab the negative, but that's not my reality. It comes from my dad. He cracks me up the way he always says, 'Suck it up and be a big girl,' to my sister, or 'Suck it up and be a man,' to us guys. That's what I'm about.

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

Bye weeks are nerve?wracking.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

Some of the great John Wayne hero things that have ever happened in football happened because people play hurt.

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

The truth is that in the NFL, the job is to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the job.

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

It's so exhausting in the pocket taking shots when you know I can go. I don't want to take that shot and maybe make a bigger play. To dedicate and discipline your mind that 'I have to find a way, that's the only way I can learn... ' That's the challenge.

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

No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.

I believe there will be players who, instead of playing eight years, will play six. Who will closely watch how they feel. It will shorten careers.

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