Top 60 Joe Namath Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”

— Joe Namath

2. “When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.”

— Joe Namath

3. “When you win, nothing hurts.”

— Joe Namath

4. “My family’s the most important thing in my life.”

— Joe Namath

5. “I can’t wait until tomorrow ’cause I get better looking every day.”

— Joe Namath

6. “There are some things you only learn through experience.”

— Joe Namath

7. “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

8. “First, I prepare. Then I have faith.”

— Joe Namath

9. “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

10. “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

11. “I wanna kiss you. I couldn’t care less about the team struggling.”

— Joe Namath

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

— Joe Namath

13. “I am a football fan, yeah.”

— Joe Namath

14. “Something’s been guiding me around throughout my life.”

— Joe Namath

15. “I’ve got news for you. We’re gonna win the game. I guarantee it.”

— Joe Namath

16. “You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.”

— Joe Namath

17. “Football is a team game. So is life.”

— Joe Namath

18. “Things change when you have children; your priorities change.”

— Joe Namath

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

— Joe Namath

20. “It feels good to show some courage.”

— Joe Namath

21. “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

22. “I don’t know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.”

— Joe Namath

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

— Joe Namath

24. “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

25. “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

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

— Joe Namath

27. “I’d rather go to Vietnam than get married.”

— Joe Namath

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

— Joe Namath

29. “How you recover from what life’s throwing at you is what matters.”

— Joe Namath

30. “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

31. “I took my time to find the perfect girl.”

— Joe Namath

32. “I’ve always said I’m going to get married only once.”

— Joe Namath

33. “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

34. “Johnny Unitas was my hero.”

— Joe Namath

35. “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

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

— Joe Namath

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

— Joe Namath

38. “I love football. I really love football, As far as I’m concerned, it’s the second best thing in the world.”

— Joe Namath

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

— Joe Namath

40. “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

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

— Joe Namath

42. “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

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

— Joe Namath

44. “I was born with the gift.”

— Joe Namath

45. “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

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

— Joe Namath

47. “I’ve tested life and I’ve learned what works for me.”

— Joe Namath

48. “I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn’t enjoy.”

— Joe Namath

49. “My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.”

— Joe Namath

50. “I couldn’t do anything I didn’t enjoy.”

— Joe Namath