Steve Young Quotes

#1. The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

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

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#3. The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset.

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#4. My goal
and this is kind of my own little secret
but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young
not that it's big really that many places
but places where they have no idea about football.

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#5. The end is here, and you don't want be here. You are the best in the world at something, and you know you are not going to be that great at anything else.

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

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#7. When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

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#8. 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.

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#9. In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this'

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

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#11. Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

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

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#13. A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.

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