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CBC Manitoba: ‘Be vulnerable’ and own up to mistakes, NFL star quarterback Steve Young tells U of Manitoba students

May 22, 2025 — 

Students and football fans at the University of Manitoba got to share laughs with and learn from an NFL great Wednesday. 

Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young spoke at the Winnipeg university as part of its International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award student presentation. Young worked the room during a speech and Q&A session with audience members, telling stories from his playing days and also offering advice in life and in business to the crowd.

Asked what he hoped younger people in the audience would take away from his presentation, Young said he hoped they learned “to be accountable, to have the vulnerability to recognize when you’ve made a mistake.”

To read the entire article, please follow the link to CBC Manitoba.

To watch and listen to the story, follow this link to CBC News.

The Free Press also wrote an article and you can find it following the link to the Free Press.

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