Top 40 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Montana

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Joe Montana.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Joe Montana

Joseph Clifford Montana Jr. is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 16 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. He is often nicknamed "Joe Cool" and "the Comeback Kid". After winning a national championship at Notre Dame, Montana began his NFL career in 1979 at San Francisco, where he played for the next 14 seasons. With the 49ers, Montana started and won four Super Bowls and was the first player to be named the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times. He also holds Super Bowl career records for most passes without an interception and the all-time highest passer rating of 127.8. In 1993, Montana was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs, where he played for his last two seasons, and led the franchise to its first AFC Championship Game in January 1994. Montana was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000.

There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.
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 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.
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever. — © Joe Montana
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
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.
I don't live in the past.
Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!
Confidence is a very fragile thing.
I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers. I think Mike Singletary has made a big difference. He's done a tremendous job.
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.
Always be prepared to start.
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.
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.
If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years. — © Joe Montana
If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.
My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.
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.
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 where you parked your car!
The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
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.
I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.
I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.
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.
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.
Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.
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.
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.
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
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.
I miss the game - I miss it a lot. — © Joe Montana
I miss the game - I miss it a lot.
Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.
There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.
Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.
I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.
It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.
When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.
Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.
Chiropractic's been a big part of my game!
I really took the lead on putting together the real estate fund-to-funds. Real estate was always interesting to me.
I have a fear of failure. — © Joe Montana
I have a fear of failure.
Chiropractic care works for me. I've been seeing a chiroprctor and he's really been helping me out a lot. Chiropractic's been a big part of my game.
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