The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything. – Joe Montana
Yeah, it’s nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself. – Joe Montana
In sports… you play from the time you’re eight years old, and then you’re done forever. – Joe Montana
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. – Joe Montana
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. – Joe Montana
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It’s arthritic. – Joe Montana
My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best. – Joe Montana
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. – Joe Montana
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. – Joe Montana
I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything. – Joe Montana
You know, I’ve had blowups with my coach too. The same thing happens, it just wasn’t as evident back then because they didn’t have so many cameras and ways to see things happen. – Joe Montana
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. – Joe Montana
Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time… I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car. – Joe Montana
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. – Joe Montana
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It’s arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye. – Joe Montana
