Quotes from Steve Young

I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk.

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before

The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset.

There's a difference between a dream and a plan. There's nothing wrong with having a dream, but the danger is attaching your happiness to it, because life doesn't always go according to plan.

The theme—the power of every human being to reconcile with his past—was one that resonated with me in a big way.

The principal is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement about being better than you were the day before.

About 5 percent of love is romantic. The other 95 percent is something else. It's caring for another more than yourself. It's empathy and compassion and sacrifice. It's setting aside your own concerns to lift someone else.

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

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

You become a leader in times of trouble. Leaders emerge when things don't go well. When everyone else starts pointing fingers, a leader takes responsibility.

You have to take certain truths. One truth is that to have championship success in the NFL you have to learn to deliver the ball from the pocket.

Something like speed of play can be a big deal.

The demands of excellent NFL quarterbacking I always said took every piece of me, emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. It was like it just took it all, and I think that was what was so energizing about it and unreplicable.

My generation, people who played with me, they're suffering from football.

I got good grades. I played sports.

If you're playing for 10 or 15 years, you can't every week run six option plays. It can be around. It can be a part of the game, but sooner or later you've got to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the game. Now, if the game changes, and it's proven a championship can be won from the pistol spread, then I'm wrong.

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

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

In the NFL, you're always facing an obstacle.

I always say football is very unnatural sport. Nobody loves to just ram into people.

Most young quarterbacks are on the field because their team stinks.

When it's all over I might be able to say I've had the strangest career in pro football history.

Donovan McNabb has great, fast feet and has learned to lock them in to run the Eagles' offense effectively.