Steve Young

You don't know the demons people deal with, and you just have no idea.

You can play with a brain that is injured - you can't play with an injured knee. That's the problem.

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

At the time I retired I was kind of known for it, as one of the guys whose career ended technically as a result of a big hit.