Joe Montana Quotes
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Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.
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Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.
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There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.
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Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
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My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
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Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!
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In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
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I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.
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As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.
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My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.
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You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.
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If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.
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Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.
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I miss the game - I miss it a lot.
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I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.
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I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.
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Some people have no respect whether you are with your family or not. That's the hardest part. I was shopping in a grocery store in Seattle looking for stuff for Nicholas. This guy kept following me with his cell phone video on.
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I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.
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Always be prepared to start.
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As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.
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There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.
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Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.
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Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.
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Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.