Joe Montana
Joe Montana
Joseph Clifford "Joe" Montana, Jr., nicknamed Joe Cool and The Comeback Kid, is a retired American football quarterback. He played in the National Football Leaguefor the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. After winning a college national championship at Notre Dame, Montana started his NFL career in 1979 with San Francisco, where he played for the next 14 seasons. Traded before the 1993 season, he spent his final two years in the league with the Kansas City Chiefs. While...
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth11 June 1956
football team media
Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.
football thrill throwing
There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.
sports years play
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
sports thinking play
Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.
confidence fragile-things fragile
Confidence is a very fragile thing.
jobs player night
Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.
past
I don't live in the past.
football be-prepared prepared
Always be prepared to start.
football nfl trying
Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.
winning opportunity years
As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.
complaining chance unprepared
Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.
winning games mirrors
When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.
football dream believe
Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.