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
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.
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.
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 be-prepared prepared
Always be prepared to start.
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.
way cameras coaches
You know, I've had blowups with my coach too. The same thing happens, it just wasn't as evident back then because they didn't have so many cameras and ways to see things happen.
six seven concussions
I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.
sports years play
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
nice people trying
Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.
football thrill throwing
There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.
sitting traffic
There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.
confidence fragile-things fragile
Confidence is a very fragile thing.
games chiropractic-care chiropractic
Chiropractic's been a big part of my game!
games missing
I miss the game - I miss it a lot.