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The principle is competing against yourself.

Steve Young

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Steve Young
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 11
American Football Player
Football Player
Television Actor
Salt Lake City
Utah
Jon Steven Young
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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 have to make an affirmative stand on it.
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I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.
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My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.
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If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that?
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When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.
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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.
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The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
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I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.
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I always had a hard time with Nashville. I reluctantly live there. I've mellowed, and it's improved some, in the fact it has more immigrants. There's some real Mexicans there, some folks from India, some of this and that. I'm not satisfied at all with living there. It's a dilemma for me.
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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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I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years.
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I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!
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I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day sitting in class and it just came to me how the neck worked. I was enlightened to the scales, and the runs. I just saw it and thought now I understand it!
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I'd rather work with guys that have time to live with you, and let it gel.
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I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.
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I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a beat attitude.
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I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to this day. Memphis never gets the credit. It's much more musically rich than Nashville ever will be. Nashville manufactured that hokey-hillbilly image way back.
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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.
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I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.
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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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