Steve Young Quotations

We've been able to extend our demographics a little younger to add some of the 20-plus generation into the mix. Our ratings are up, and the revenues have increased somewhere between $1 and $2 million a year.

Luckily, you feel that way. If you really knew how long you were going to hear about how you played in the Super Bowl, how it went, no one could sleep.

Oh yeah, I was watching them. I went to a couple of games last year and followed them pretty closely.

Now that we're used to the salary cap, teams that have figured it out have a leg up, ... The Patriots have figured it out.

I felt pretty good. We had some ups and downs. We have to work on putting it all together for a full game. We have to do better every play.

If it's going to be broken, and obviously it is at some point, let it be those two guys,

He worked so hard to run the offense ... it was timing. It was artistry. It wasn't just, 'Hey, go out there and get open,'

He's going to be there, and he's going to be open,

It is a lot easier to pitch with a lead than to pitch from behind. I was also coming off a week of rest.

I thought Everett did a lot of the things we expected them to do. They're a very structured hockey club. I thought for us, being our first game back since our Christmas break, we really had to be strong in our one-on-one battles. It got better as the game went on, but to start with we weren't as strong as I felt we should have been.

I think we should do reasonably well. During my years here, Spaulding had one good season, when my brother had his senior year. That one year, we had real team unity, not just individuals. I kind of feel like we have that this year.

It goes beyond disappointing. I'm disillusioned. I really feel like the district has patronized us by saying this is just an emotional issue. This is an issue of safety and logic.

Our whole strategy has been to get through the primary, get the nomination and then things will open up,

refused to recognize that in the last 20 years the quarterback position has become blind to color.

I was hoping I was going to be back as soon as possible. Then they told me, before I got the MRI results back, that they thought it was an ACL tear and I would be out six months. I was pretty stoked when I found out it wasn't my ACL. I worked as hard as I could to get back.

I think if somebody would give him the opportunity today to be a top-three receiver on a team, he'd still be playing.

I think more than anything, his game-day career was just the coasting part of his life. It was just picking up the harvest. All the apples were already on the tree.

Winning the Super Bowl was much more important. If we weren't in the Super Bowl, it was a regrettable season.

We had to rebuild the ribs, reinstall some planking, re-canvas the entire boat and then paint and varnish it. But it was worth it. It's a privilege to have won this award.

We had some of the finest musicians in Nashville contributing to this album.

We have been looking at coming together. We wanted to play a solid game like today. We all pulled everything together.

The players seem more into it. We have new coaches, enthusiasm. We want to see the new style; see if it works.

But Mike is a straight shooter, and this is probably as good of a situation as it could be. This is one of the rational, reasonable ways you would think it would have to come to an end.

Brett is going to have a huge burden to try and lift the rest of the team. I think that burden is too much. I think for the first time in the last six or seven years, I think the burden actually will pull him backwards, maybe into the abyss.

There's no way I would fill up our cars with gas once a week any more. We're not using a full tank of gas even once a month.

I simply wished they would have studied it further.

As a quarterback, when you drop back with the best athletes in the world basically paid to beat you up, you've got to know what it feels like to have a guy like that on your side. Unless you played, you can't appreciate what that means to you.

As a work team, and as peers, we miss him terribly, and will always feel no matter how things are going, it would always be a lot better if Jack were here.

There will be a massive jump for Mike this season,

It was a lot of balance-oriented things. They made me wear a big honking brace all the way down my leg. It was a lot of standing on one foot, doing one-legged squats. It was really hard, because my leg was kind of deteriorated.

I truly believe he prepared me better than anything else I did in high school.

It's that kind of a thing. It comes down to the bounce of the ball, ... If the Patriots do it, it's one of the magnificent things in sports.

It's like anything in life: If you have a passion, and a commitment to something, you do it very well. You don't have to be in a big city to do it well. This is something Canton has obviously a passion for, and a commitment to. ... If I ever get in trouble, or needed to live somewhere in the world because of a situation, I would come here. I think they'd take me in, and I'd be all right here.

It's been a long time. All you hear in Moose Jaw is they've never gotten by the second round. The guys are very proud of it, yet we're very focused in what we want to do and we want to continue to keep going here.

It'll come. When it does, that's when he'll be doubly dangerous.

It was kind of like a whole-team effort. Everybody has little pieces of the puzzle. Everybody has to hit (to get past 120). A lot of kids have to say, 'I think I can' and come through.

I want to be able to come home once in a while. It's nice to sleep in your own bed.

They just simply said that it looks like there are issues of constitutional law that should be looked at, but we just can't take time to hear it because you're going to be presenting too much stuff,

It was horrible. It's not a good feeling to be sitting on the sideline and you see your team losing and you know you should be out there doing something for them.

I knew the second he knew he wasn't going to be on the field making an impact that he would call it a career. But it seemed like he would never retire. I thought he'd be George Blanda out there catching passes at 45.

I just throw that brace on there, it's supposed to protect the knee. I just feel that the little brace, when I put it on, it's impenetrable.

I really didn't want to have to go to a team where I was going to have to go through losing. I wanted to go on a team where everyone was pumped about what they were doing. They're only on the rise, so I figured, they're close to home, I like the coaches, it's location. It fits me.

He's our captain and if he's out of our lineup, it's a blow.

He played like it was game day when nobody else was watching,

For the balance of this year, we'll continue to focus on those stocks that can provide some earnings momentum because that's becoming scarcer and scarcer as well as companies that just provide earnings stability with no surprises on the downside.

The trick is educating the public about the technology.

All summer long, I was playing football at the Boston College, UNH and University of Connecticut camps. The injury wasn't something I was thinking about. I just went out there and played like I always do.

The care has been excellent. She'll be able to get up and walk around with both legs.

There are a lot of guys kind of on the bubble that can either be that sort who turn into journeyman kind of guys that will find a new spot or guys that can make a claim to be in one place for a long time. You can name a lot of names this year, an unusual number. And I think that most of them will be OK.

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, if it's true, that the Packers are not going to be competing for championships. The moment that comes into his heart - oh my gosh, the Packers are not going to be able to make it - that's the day he retires. It won't take much once he realizes that's where the Packers are going.

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.

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.

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

First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

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.

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'

The principle is competing against yourself.

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

Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization that's going to have this as a perspective, we've got to back it up. We can't be backed into it with a video with more coming out. We've got to take an affirmative stance about it.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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