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
games missing
I miss the game - I miss it a lot.
football games get-better
It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.
chiropractic-care games helping
Chiropractic care works for me. I've been seeing a chiroprctor and he's really been helping me out a lot. Chiropractic's been a big part of my game.
football practice play
Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play.
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.
eye sunday games
I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.
two guy champion
I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.
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.
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.
play years trying
If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.
phones cells shopping
Some people have no respect whether you are with your family or not. That's the hardest part. I was shopping in a grocery store in Seattle looking for stuff for Nicholas. This guy kept following me with his cell phone video on.
horizontal job neither throw unless
Unless they do a better job up front, neither one can throw from the horizontal position,
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.
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.