Quotes About Johnny Unitas

#1. I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny Unitas.

Ozzie Newsome

#2. Johnny Unitas was my hero.

Joe Namath

#3. We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

Bob Lilly

#4. I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.

Julian Castro

#5. If (a particular researcher) won't stop when you ask nicely, when you picket in front of his house, or when you burn his car, maybe he'll stop when you hit him over the head with a two-by-four.

Jerry Vlasak

#6. Chaplain Vega's a tall Mexican guy with a mustache that looks like it's about to jump off his face and fuck the first rodent it finds. Kind of mustache only a chaps could get away with in the military.

Phil Klay

#7. I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

Johnny Unitas

#8. Talk is cheap, let's go play.

Johnny Unitas

#9. Ravelle, anyone in command feigns ease when death is near. We do it for those around us, and we do it for ourselves. We do it because the sole alternative is to die cringing.

Scott Lynch

#10. I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had ... they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.

Johnny Unitas

#11. Specialists can never practice their specialties too much. The danger is in not practicing enough. Make that mistake, and soon you may not be in the specialty business anymore.

Johnny Unitas

#12. There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Johnny Unitas

#13. I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.

Johnny Unitas

#14. All diseases run into one, old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Total freedom from your past; both the good and the bad things is the foundation for a successful life.

Sunday Adelaja

#16. Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.

Johnny Unitas

#17. There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

Johnny Unitas

#18. There's a danger and a beauty to the moment which seems out of time. It pierces something deep inside of him, bypassing his rationale, and it touches his very core. In a sudden shock of illumination, and of knowing, he recognizes this woman is his destiny, and their fates are intertwined.

Scarlett Amaris

#19. Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Johnny Unitas

#20. I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

Johnny Unitas

#21. Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

Reginald Horace Blyth