Joe Namath Quotations

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

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

There are some things you only learn through experience.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

I don't like going out on a date unless I know the broad a little bit beforehand. By the way, 'broad' to me is not a detrimental term for women; it's simply another word for female. Anyway, I don't really go out a whole lot, because there aren't many girls I like to take out and spend a whole evening with - at least not an evening in public.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.

Where's Joe? I know he's in here because his car's parked outside.

I thought we'd win when I said those things. I wasn't trying to be cocky or anything.

Most of my recognition comes from us winning that championship. The words may not come out - 'Super Bowl III' - because a lot of the folks at the grocery store, gas station or mall weren't even born when we won the Super Bowl. But they're aware of it. It has had a tremendous impact on my life since then.

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

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was 'shut up.'

The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

I told him about the car story. He got a kick out of it.

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

Hey guys, I don't want to ride alone, ... Somebody jump in.

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

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

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.

Things change when you have children; your priorities change.

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

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

I took my time to find the perfect girl.

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

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!

Johnny Unitas was my hero.

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

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

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

I am a football fan, yeah.

I can't compare family to athletics.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

I'm always gonna be Joe Namath, and I'm not running from that.

Football is a team game. So is life.

I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I've had some treatment - and I've improved.

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

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

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 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.

Something's been guiding me around throughout my life.

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

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

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

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.

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

When you win, nothing hurts.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The end of the tunnel, there's a light there,