Quotes by Joe Montana

About Joe Montana:

Joseph Clifford is a retired professional American football player, a hall of fame quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. After winning a college national championship at Notre Dame, Montana started his NFL career in 1979 with San Francisco, where he played for the next 14 seasons. Traded before the 1993 season, he spent his final two years in the league with the Kansas City Chiefs. While a member of the 49ers, Montana started and won four Super Bowls and was the first player ever to have been named Super Bowl Most Valuable Player three times. He also holds Super Bowl career records for most passes without an interception (122 in 4 games) and the all-time highest quarterback rating of 127.8. Montana was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000, his first year of eligibility.
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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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. You are baby-sitting rich, spoiled kids... I don't know w...

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

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.

Joe Montana

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Joe Montana

Always be prepared to start.

Joe Montana

Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!

Joe Montana

I miss the game - I miss it a lot.

Joe Montana

There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.

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

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

There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.

Joe Montana

If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

Joe Montana

I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.

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

Author Bio

  • NameJoe Montana
  • DescriptionAmerican football player, quarterback
  • AliasesJoseph Clifford Montana, Jr.
  • BornJune 11, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGridiron Football Player