Quotes By Joe Namath

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

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

I took my time to find the perfect girl.

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

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

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

Johnny Unitas was my hero.

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

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

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

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

I can't compare family to athletics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

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

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

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.

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

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.