Joe Montana famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Football #Dream #Believe
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.
-- Joe Montana

#Winning #Mirrors #Games
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

#Winning #Opportunity #Years
Always be prepared to start.
-- Joe Montana

#Football #Be Prepared #Prepared
Confidence is a very fragile thing.
-- Joe Montana

#Confidence #Fragile Things
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

#Football #Air #Hands
I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.
-- Joe Montana

#Past #Games #Just Live
I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.
-- Joe Montana

#Six #Seven #Concussions
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

#Phones #Cells #Shopping
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

#Cameras #Way #Coaches
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

#Sports #Thinking #Play
I really took the lead on putting together the real estate fund-to-funds. Real estate was always interesting to me.
-- Joe Montana

#Real #Interesting #Together
I miss the game - I miss it a lot.
-- Joe Montana

#Games #Missing
It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.
-- Joe Montana

#Football #Games #Get Better
Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.
-- Joe Montana

#Football #Succeed #Quarterback
If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.
-- Joe Montana

#Years #Play #Trying
Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.
-- Joe Montana

#Defense #Harder #Take Time
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
-- Joe Montana

#Sleep #Knees #Bugs
There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.
-- Joe Montana

#Sitting #Traffic
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

#Baseball #Football #Mean
I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.
-- Joe Montana

#Eye #Sunday #Games
I don't live in the past.
-- Joe Montana

#Past
Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.
-- Joe Montana

#Complaining #Chance #Unprepared
I have a fear of failure.
-- Joe Montana

#Fear #Fear Of Failure
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

#Nice #People #Trying

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