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
arm door legs run worry
I think I could, ... My arm still works. It's my legs I worry about. ...If I could run from here to that door over there, I would.
missed wife
When I was playing, I missed my two girls' (events). They look up (in the stands) and myself and my wife are not there. I want to be there for the boys.
horizontal job neither throw unless
Unless they do a better job up front, neither one can throw from the horizontal position,
basketball college forget good guys offered
You guys forget I was a pretty good basketball player. They offered me a college scholarship in that, too.
last offense tough
Last year, ... that offense put him in a lot of tough spots.
autograph fun parties players turns
I usually come in for work. All the parties are for the fans. When the players go it is no fun and it turns into an autograph session.
bowl great home moved super
To me, it's more important to be home with my boys. The Super Bowl is a great event, but I've moved on with my life.
bit everybody feeling talks
The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
likes media takes though work
You need to be able to work with people. 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.
estate lead putting together took
I really took the lead on putting together the real estate fund-to-funds, ... Real estate was always interesting to me.
affect
I'm an athlete. I'd been working out all my life, so I thought, It won't affect me.
sleep bugs knees
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
baseball football mean
I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
football air hands
As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.