Top 76 Namath's Quotes
#1. Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
Jimmy Breslin
#2. 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.
Joe Namath
#3. 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.
Joe Namath
#4. There are some things you only learn through experience.
Joe Namath
#5. 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.
Joe Namath
#6. I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.
Joe Namath
#7. I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.
Joe Namath
#8. I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.
Joe Namath
#9. I believe in letting a guy live the way he wants to if he doesn't hurt anyone.
Joe Namath
#10. I don't think that I've ever been a backup.
Joe Namath
#11. I can't compare family to athletics.
Joe Namath
#12. None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.
Joe Namath
#13. As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.
Joe Namath
#14. First, I prepare. Then I have faith.
Joe Namath
#15. I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.
Joe Namath
#16. 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!
Joe Namath
#17. It feels good to show some courage.
Joe Namath
#18. I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.
Joe Namath
#19. Nobody wants to follow somebody who doesn't know where he's going.
Joe Namath
#20. If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath
#21. I enjoy sex as much as Joe Namath, only I do it with one girl.
Roger Staubach
#22. You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.
Joe Namath
#23. I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.
Joe Namath
#24. I've always said I'm going to get married only once.
Joe Namath
#25. 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.
Joe Namath
#26. What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.
Joe Namath
#27. If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath
#28. 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.
Joe Namath
#29. I can't wait until tomorrow 'cause I get better looking every day.
Joe Namath
#30. I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.
Joe Namath
#31. Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'
Joe Namath
#32. We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.
Joe Namath
#33. Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.
Joe Namath
#34. My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'
Joe Namath
#35. I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.
Joe Namath
#36. 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.
Joe Namath
#37. How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.
Joe Namath
#38. When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
Joe Namath
#39. 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.
Joe Namath
#40. I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.
Joe Namath
#42. My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.
Joe Namath
#43. I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.
Joe Namath
#44. Things change when you have children; your priorities change.
Joe Namath
#45. I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
Caitlyn Jenner
#46. I took my time to find the perfect girl.
Joe Namath
#48. I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.
Joe Namath
#49. Times have changed. The athletes have changed.
Joe Namath
#50. 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.
Joe Namath
#51. 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.
Joe Namath
#52. 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.
Joe Namath
#53. The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you're ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
Jim Valvano
#55. I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.
John Travolta
#56. 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.
Joe Namath
#57. 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.
Joe Namath
#58. It feels bad to feel like you're not wanted.
Joe Namath
#59. To win, you have to lose, and then get pissed off.
Joe Namath
#60. I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.
Joe Namath
#61. There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
Joe Namath
#62. Of course, in pro ball, they never hit the quarterback in practice.
Joe Namath
#63. It's not how you fall that counts.. It's how you get up
Joe Namath
#64. Something's been guiding me around throughout my life.
Joe Namath
#65. Football is a team game. So is life.
Joe Namath
#66. I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.
Joe Namath
#68. I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.
Joe Namath
#69. I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.
Joe Namath
#70. 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.
Joe Namath
#71. 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.
Joe Namath
#72. Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.
Joe Namath
#73. 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.
Joe Namath
#74. I'm always gonna be Joe Namath, and I'm not running from that.
Joe Namath
#75. Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.
Joe Namath
#76. I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.
Joe Namath
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