Steve Young
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1,298 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 10 Jul
Steve Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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dug a hole of depression and anxiety and victimization and like I was I was struggling and he kind of showed me you know a way you know a perspective that said basically that the 49ers was the greatest platform for iterating to see how good you can get as anything he's ever seen in his life and I was like well no I can't because what I'm just described to you is this place sucks and he's like no this is the greatest chance you've ever had to see how good you can are you afraid to see how good you can get
I'm like, no, I'm not afraid. Well, then go about, be about it. And I was proven at the time that I was in the bottom of a hole that I had dug, that I had victimized myself and made all the excuses and everything else. And so I think that two or three years before that Superbowl, I had come to a place of perspective to recognize that it really wasn't about him.
It was really about like, go about, this is the greatest platform in history for a quarterback to see how good they are. Go, go be about it. I remember playing the pack, like the Dallas Cowboys soon after and seeing Troy Aikman in warmups and I ran up to him. I was like, Troy, I'm so glad you're here.
I'm in this quest to see how good I can get, and I can only find out against the best, and you guys are the best, so I can't wait to play. Troy looked at me like, freaking weirdo. But I was about it. I was about it. And so by the time I did it at the Super Bowl, it was almost...
it was it felt a little bit like i i was like what do i want to say it was um uh it was it was it was cheap at that point it was more of a thing to do just because it was it was for the cameras because yeah you already wanted a couple mvps yeah performative but everyone sees it as a moment yeah i mean i had that moment two or three years before right what i did right do you feel a little bit bad about what you did to the chargers
Kind of ran it up on them. Honestly, if someone's going up, like think about the old days when they had someone and they had the shackles behind them and the chain with their legs and they're going up to get guillotined, you know, the crowd would, in the town square, the crowd would gather and then the guy's going to come and get his head cut off, right?
It's like, even if you're a Charger fan and you're about to see me get my head cut off, you might say, oh, I'm okay with losing because then I didn't see a guy get his head cut off. You know what I mean? There was one less death in the world today. So, I mean, I can't imagine anyone felt bad about that day for me.
Seven habits, yes.
You're a savant? You got everything in your pocket?
That story is, that has a longer, I tried to tell it as fast as I could, but he took the moments, like he was, he looked like Yoda. He was bald and shorter and kind of curmudgeonly and had a long finger. And he looked at me right in the eye and goes, I think you're afraid to see how good you can get. And I go, I totally understand that because people, human beings are, that scares people.
Yeah, but I mean... I'm not afraid. He goes, then go be about it, man. And I mean, my life changed right there on a freaking Delta flight from Salt Lake City to San Jose, California. As I went home, I had flown home after practice on Monday just to get out of town. Wow. Because the goal floor was my fault. Like, I had to get out of town.
And I went to see my brother who was at the University of Utah Medical School. And I walked around with him telling him all my problems. He goes, bro, I got three kids and I'm broke in medical school. Like, what the hell? What are you talking about? I got nothing for my brother. I got nothing for my brother.
I headed home, headed back to practice on a Tuesday night and sat down next to Stephen Covey.
He's like, no, I remember he, he, he, We, he, he was, he was, he was from Utah. So he was like, it was somebody I knew and I knew his kids actually a little bit. So it's like, it was a familial thing. I'd understood him, but I never really sat and talked to him ever in my life. And I sat down and just, oh, Steve, nice to meet you. And a great, wonderful. And I'm like, how are you doing?
And I just, I was at a place where if you ask me how I'm doing. You're getting a half an hour of I'm going to spew out everything because I'm in the pit, man. And that's what I did. And he listened to all of it and basically said, wow. If you want a little bit more, he said, let's see if I hear it all. Man, it sounds really hard. Can I ask you a couple of questions?
He said, tell me about your owner, Eddie DiBartolo. I'm like, man, that guy's amazing. He sees everything. players and owners as partners. He goes, yeah, I'd heard about him. I really want to meet him. He sounds like an amazing guy. Tell me about your coach, Bill Walsh. And of course, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He goes, yeah, I really want to meet him too.
He's a guy that feels like he has a lot to give to the world. And I'm like, yeah, no question. And then he asked me one last question, Steve. is Joe Montana on the team? Is he there? And if you needed to go ask him for advice, could you do it? I'm like, well, yeah, that's the whole problem is he's sitting there on the sidelines hurt.
And I, I, he goes, yeah, but if you needed a mentorship, could you go ask him? I'm like, yeah, I could. And then he said, man, I've been around a long time. I, this is my seven habits book. This is what I do. I look for companies, platforms where people have, they perform, they give people a chance to iterate and see how good they can get.
And I just try to, you know, amplify their story so that people can read about it and help their own lives. And I got to be honest with you, as I travel the world, this is the greatest, best platform that I've ever seen for somebody who's set up to go see how good they could get. And I remember when he said it, I was like, wait, didn't you just tell, I just told you a half an hour of crap today.
Like, what are you trying to turn this on me? And he turned it on my head in a way that just, I freaking changed my life big time.
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