Top 33 Joe Namath Quotes

I was born with the gift.

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

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

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

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 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.

Something‘s been guiding me around throughout my life.

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.

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

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

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

Till I was 13, I thought my name was ‘Shut Up.’

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

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

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

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

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

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.

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

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

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.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

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

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

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.

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

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

I am a football fan, yeah.

I have to convince myself I know what I’m doing.

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.

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.

I’d rather go to Vietnam than get married.