Joe Namath Quotes

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

Joe Namath

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• Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Going

• I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Never

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Like
  • Never
  • Lift

• It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Life
  • Me
  • Sense

• I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Best

• People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Blues

• I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • World
  • Know
  • First

• We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Support
  • Doing
  • Something

• I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Own

• I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Score
  • Shoot
  • He

• Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Wisdom
  • Courage
  • Fruit

• I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Children
  • Family
  • Massive

• Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • Eating
  • Common Sense

• I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Wine
  • Huge
  • Collection

• Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

  

  Brigham Young

• Our mistakes, blunders, flaws, and shortcomings notwithstanding, the world America made after 1945 and 1989 has enjoyed the longest period of general peace in the west since Roman times, and decades of prosperity.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • World
  • Mistake
  • Prosperity

• I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Life
  • Hand

• He raked his fingers through his hair. "She doesn't need me." Ralston smirked. "You are laboring under that mistaken impression that it is their job to need us. In my experience it is almost always the other way around.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Hair
  • Impression
  • Fingers

• To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Gold
  • Shower
  • Penetrable

• I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

  

  Joe Namath