Joe Namath Quotes

When you win, nothing hurts.

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

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

My family's the most important thing in my life.

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.

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

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

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

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.

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

I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.

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

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

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

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!

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

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.

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 was born with the gift.

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.

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

We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

Football is a team game. So is life.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

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

The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

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

I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

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.

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

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

None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.

It feels good to show some courage.

The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

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 have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

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

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

I can't compare family to athletics.

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggguulliing...We're looking to make a noise now and ... I wanna kiss you!

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

Nobody wants to follow somebody who doesn't know where he's going.

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

Johnny Unitas was my hero.

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

There are some things you only learn through experience.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.