Top 71 Joe Namath Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. I was born with the gift.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

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

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#10. I am a football fan, yeah.

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#11. I took my time to find the perfect girl.

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#12. Things change when you have children; your priorities change.

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

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

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#15. Johnny Unitas was my hero.

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#16. 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.

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

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

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

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#20. 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.

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

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#22. 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.

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#23. 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.

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#24. I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

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

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#26. When you win nothing hurts.

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

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#28. Football is a team game. So is life.

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#29. Something's been guiding me around throughout my life.

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

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

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

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#33. I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

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

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

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

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

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

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#39. It feels good to show some courage.

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#40. 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!

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

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#42. First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

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

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

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#45. I can't compare family to athletics.

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

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

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

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

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

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#51. 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.

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#52. There are some things you only learn through experience.

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#53. 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.

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#54. 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.

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#55. 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.

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

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

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#58. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#65. 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.

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#66. If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?

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

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#68. 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.

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

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

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

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