Joe Namath Quotes

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

I was born with the gift.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

Of course, in pro ball, they never hit the quarterback in practice.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

It feels bad to feel like you're not wanted.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling.

When you win, nothing hurts.

I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college and I guess I agreed with them or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

It feels good to show some courage.

To win, you have to lose, and then get pissed off.

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.

It's not how you fall that counts.. It's how you get up

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season. We're looking to make a noise now, and I wanna kiss you!

I am a football fan, yeah.

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Things change when you have children; your priorities change.

I can't wait until tomorrow 'cause I get better looking every day.

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.

I've always said I'm going to get married only once.

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

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair.

I believe in letting a guy live the way he wants to if he doesn't hurt anyone.

I can't compare family to athletics.

Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

I spent the nights before the Jets' two biggest games last year - for the AFL championship and the Super Bowl - with girls. But I don't consider that bad or foolish of me... The night before a game, I prepare myself both mentally and physically for the next day. I think a ballplayer has to be relaxed to play well; and if that involves being with a girl that night, he should do it.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.