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Steve Young Biography

Jon Steven Young (born October 11, 1961) is a former professional American football quarterback who played 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and is best known for his 13 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers. He also played for the NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League (USFL). Young played college football for Brigham Young University, setting school and NCAA records en route to being runner-up for the 1983 Heisman Trophy.

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Josh Graves laid down the dobro on that song [The White Trash Song] and he was hot. We went on the road together and we'd get drunker'n hell every night! I haven't had a drink since November, 1979. And I like it.

Hell, Josh, Night, Road, Song, White

I had a guy who went out of way to help me get started and somehow saw something in me. I couldn't get my hands on a real guitar till I was fourteen. I always wanted one from the time I was a tiny kid. Music was bigger than life to me.

Bigger, Guitar, Kids, Real, Time, Tiny

I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved to Nashville years later, one night I went to a Harlan Howard Guitar Pull thing, and there was Waylon. He started talking about how much he loved my work and how great I was, and I couldn't even get a word in.

Guitar, Moved, Nashville, Night, Pull

I was a young folk singer, or wanted to be. I really wanted to be a New England folk singer, but they never would accept me. I was always hard to categorize, and people wouldn't know what to make of it.

Categorize, England, Folk, People, Singers

The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.

Country, Cousin, Cousins, Down, Song, Wrote

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

Couple, Years, Nfl, Quarterbacks, Give

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.

Beatings, Hanging, Player, Pocket, Real, Risk

I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

Different, Drummer, Say, Views

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

Gallagher, Guitar, Guitars, Like, Martins, Somewhat

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 about that record I really like.

Done, Nails, Recorded, Released, Rocks

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

Technique, Orchestra, Instruments, Shows, Exists

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.

Finish, Football, Goal, Ideas, Places, Steve

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.

People, Perceived, Perception, Reality, Truth

I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.

Age, Chance, Drug, Heavy, People, Sober

I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them when I was a kid. They lived on a red dirt Georgia back road, in a shack, with twelve kids. Farmers. No electricity, they had a well on their back porch, but they had nothing, yet they were the happiest, freest people I'd ever met. I loved to visit them. Great sense of humor, and they kept up with all the latest music, country, rockabilly, that stuff. Great food they grew in the fields and canned. Happy people.

Country, Cousin, Growing Up, Happiest, Met, Sense

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

Black, Joy, Kids, People, Real, Sing

I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough.

Comments, Enough, Music, Pete, Redneck, Woody

The principle is competing against yourself.

Against, Competing, Football, Motivational, Principle, Sports

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

Down, Guitar, Piano, Piano Playing, Playing

Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.

Play, Redneck, Rednecks, Stuff, Time

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