Joe Namath's Quotes

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'

I believe in letting a guy live the way he wants to if he doesn't hurt anyone.

When you win, nothing hurts.

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.

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.

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

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

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

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

My family's the most important thing in my life.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

I am a football fan, yeah.

I can't compare family to athletics.

I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

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.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.