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Joe Namath [1943-0] American

Rank: 102
Athlete, Football quarterback

Joseph William Namath, nicknamed Broadway Joe, is a former American football quarterback and actor. He played college football for the University of Alabama under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant from 1962 to 1964, and professional football in the American Football League and National Football League during the 1960s and 1970s.

Sports, Amazing, Dating, Experience, Success

Quote	Tags	Rank
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.	Amazing	101
When you win, nothing hurts.	Success	102
What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.		103
There are some things you only learn through experience.	Experience	104
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.		105
You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.		106
We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.		107
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.		108
After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.		109
I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.		110
I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.	Sports	111
As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.		112
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.		113
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?		114
I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.	Sports	115
I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.		116
I don't like going out on a date unless I know the broad a little bit beforehand. By the way, 'broad' to me is not a detrimental term for women; it's simply another word for female. Anyway, I don't really go out a whole lot, because there aren't many girls I like to take out and spend a whole evening with - at least not an evening in public.	Dating	117
I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.		118
I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.		119
Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'		120
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.		121
How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.		122
I'm always gonna be Joe Namath, and I'm not running from that.		123
I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.		124
It feels bad to feel like you're not wanted.		125
There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.		126
I am a football fan, yeah.		201
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.		202
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.		203
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.		204
First, I prepare. Then I have faith.		205
I don't think that I've ever been a backup.		206
Of course, in pro ball, they never hit the quarterback in practice.		207
Johnny Unitas was my hero.		208
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.		209
I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.		210
I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.		211
My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'		212
My family's the most important thing in my life.		213
Something's been guiding me around throughout my life.		214
I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.		215
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.		216
None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.		217
Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.		218
Most of my recognition comes from us winning that championship. The words may not come out - 'Super Bowl III' - because a lot of the folks at the grocery store, gas station or mall weren't even born when we won the Super Bowl. But they're aware of it. It has had a tremendous impact on my life since then.		219
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.		220
I believe in letting a guy live the way he wants to if he doesn't hurt anyone.		221
I'm lucky.		222
I was born with the gift.		223
Times have changed. The athletes have changed.		224
I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.		225
My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.		226
I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.		301
I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.		302
Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.		303
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.		304
I took my time to find the perfect girl.		305
I've always said I'm going to get married only once.		306
I can't compare family to athletics.		307
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.		308

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