Steve Young Quotes

Leaving college early to play pro football was the best thing that happened to me. I got to drop the most boring poetry class. Dumbest thing I did was being in that class.

I don't know where horse riding could have taken me, and it's something I can always go back to when I've retired from football, but the crossroads came in my life when Chelsea wanted to sign me and make me a professional footballer in 2013 when I was 20.

Leaving Tottenham was not by best choice but, apart from that, there haven't been too many regrets in my career.

I'm still a fanatical fan of Porto, and I always will be, but a footballer's career is short, and I have to make the most of all the opportunities that I get.

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

I wish Michael Sam nothing but the best in his quest to become a star in the NFL, and I am confident he will get the opportunity to show what he can do on the field.

Hopefully, I can stay in the Premier League for my whole career.

Everybody who knows anything about me knows all I ever wanted to do is play pro football. But I didn't have the talent, and I got hurt a lot. I'd do anything to be out on the field.

I don't know how you get to be 40 without having a whole bunch of regrets.

I was a quarterback in college. I hoped to go to the NFL, and I didn't get drafted. I then became a free agent. I could sign with whoever I wanted to, and I ended up going to Pittsburgh.

My pops played for the Packers for five years.

I'm retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.

You want to be drafted high, but to be drafted high into an organization like the Kansas City Chiefs, it's like a dream to me.

I've seen a life many, many footballers had never seen.

Believe it or not, my goal was always to play in the NFL.

The night I got drafted to the A's, obviously it was a great day of my life, but I've been a football player my whole life.

I spent my career at big clubs.

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

Coming from a small South Dakota school, it was a different route to get to the NFL. I went from South Dakota State to the World League of American Football with the Amsterdam Admirals, and fortunately I did well enough there that the New England Patriots decided to sign me and give me a chance.

It was strange to go off the path that everyone takes and not finish college, but it's been a great adventure.

I was so used to playing at St Mirren and then Hibs all the time, so it was really important that the next place I was going I was going to play.

I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.

I didn't go to uni and although I don't have regrets in my life, I have two nephews and I'd encourage them to go to uni as I don't think you need to grow up too quick.

The NFL - that's my No. 1 goal. That's what I want to do.

My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.