Joe Namath quote: "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."

After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas t...
JOE NAMATH

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.
JOE NAMATH

When you win nothing hurts.
JOE NAMATH

When you win, nothing hurts.
JOE NAMATH

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who d...
JOE NAMATH

We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.
JOE NAMATH

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a littl...
JOE NAMATH

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing thing...
JOE NAMATH

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with w...
JOE NAMATH

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.
JOE NAMATH

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I s...
JOE NAMATH

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

I took my time to find the perfect girl.
JOE NAMATH

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to b...
JOE NAMATH

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything...
JOE NAMATH

The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy o...
JOE NAMATH

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

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not ma...
JOE NAMATH

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.
JOE NAMATH

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you'...
JOE NAMATH

When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for p...
JOE NAMATH

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.
JOE NAMATH

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

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.
JOE NAMATH

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

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who d...
JOE NAMATH

We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.
JOE NAMATH

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

If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?
JOE NAMATH

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I cou...
JOE NAMATH

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

Football Is an honest game. It's true to life . It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. ...
JOE NAMATH

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

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you...
JOE NAMATH

Most of my recognition comes from us winning that championship. The words may not come out - 'Su...
JOE NAMATH

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to ha...
JOE NAMATH

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
JOE NAMATH

I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I'v...
JOE NAMATH

Till I was 13, I thought my name was "Shut Up."
JOE NAMATH

I told him about the car story. He got a kick out of it.
JOE NAMATH

Where's everyone else staying?
JOE NAMATH

Hey guys, I don't want to ride alone, ... Somebody jump in.
JOE NAMATH

I thought we'd win when I said those things. I wasn't trying to be cocky or anything.
JOE NAMATH

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.
JOE NAMATH

I want to kiss you.
JOE NAMATH

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

Compromise is only comfortable to the man who is outside the presence of God.
JOE JOE DAWSON

Almost All Christians want to taste the fruits of revival but only a few will do what's necessary to...
JOE JOE DAWSON

I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a re...
JOE FRAZIER

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
JOE THEISMANN

If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn...
JOE BIDEN

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must ...
JOE LIEBERMAN

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understand...
JOE TORRE

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shou...
JOE SLOVO

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that'...
JOE ARPAIO

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
JOE PATERNO

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true profes...
JOE PATERNO

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's righ...
JOE WURZELBACHER

Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through...
JOE CRAFT

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupa...
JOE GIBBS

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.
JOE SLOVO

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.
JOE WILSON

Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
FAT JOE

I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect ...
FAT JOE

I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a h...
FAT JOE

Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get h...
FAT JOE

If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era...
FAT JOE

I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks...
FAT JOE

Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees qu...
FAT JOE

Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos - six different times he...
FAT JOE

All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot...
FAT JOE

Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten...
FAT JOE

Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even ...
FAT JOE

Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm ...
FAT JOE

When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over ev...
FAT JOE

Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be...
FAT JOE

To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of...
FAT JOE

Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
FAT JOE

When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many m...
FAT JOE

Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to m...
FAT JOE

As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,...
FAT JOE

I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
FAT JOE

I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don&#...
FAT JOE

See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.
FAT JOE

We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we brin...
FAT JOE

I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
FAT JOE

Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do ...
FAT JOE

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put...
JOE BIDEN

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
JOE ROGAN

Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of...
JOE ROGAN

When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet....
JOE ALWYN

As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with ...
JOE MONTANA

I don't bow down to the federal government.
JOE ARPAIO

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from...
JOE SLOVO

The sunrise was the colour of bad blood. It leaked out of the east and stained the dark sky red, mar...
JOE ABERCROMBIE

I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.
JOE WURZELBACHER

The first CD that I ever bought was 'Britney Spears.' It was at a 7-Eleven and I was like, &...
JOE JONAS

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Oly...
JOE BIDEN

Every time I pull somebody out of the bullpen, I believe he can do the job. I have to believe it. If...
JOE TORRE

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned ...
JOE WRIGHT

I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening.
JOE SACCO

I love that Cadillac ATS!
JOE BIDEN

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calen...
JOE SHUSTER

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda...
JOE CONASON

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and ...
JOE BIDEN

I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue c...
JOE PISCOPO

Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicos...
JOE KLEIN

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
JOE PATERNO

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but do...
JOE ABERCROMBIE

When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding h...
JOE GOLD

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.
JOE GOLD

Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.
JOE BASTIANICH

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable ...
JOE SCARBOROUGH

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.
JOE KARBO

The only place I considered home was the boarding school in Yorkshire my parents sent me to. It'...
JOE STRUMMER

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.
JOE MOORE

When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.
JOE ABERCROMBIE

I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and sta...
JOE MANCHIN

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel lik...
JOE PESCI

I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
JOE TORRE

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
JOE PATERNO

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.
JOE MURRAY

Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.
JOE MADUREIRA

My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina beca...
JOE FRAZIER

Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside...
JOE BASTIANICH

You have to make it happen.
JOE GREENE

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstei...
JOE THEISMAN

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop mak...
JOE ABERCROMBIE

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
JOE KLAAS

Of course you know, this means war.
JOE ADAMSON

...Maude Harris told me that all was well with the world because medical science had profited by the...
JOE GOULD

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organ...
JOE ROGAN

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great th...
JOE ABERCROMBIE

It takes time to save time.
JOE TAYLOR

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.
JOE POYER

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
JOE WALSH

Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
JOE PATERNO

Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last ounce of courage, to rea...
JOE DARION

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it...
JOE DIMAGGIO

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality...
JOE PATERNO

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit...
JOE PATERNO

Confidence is a very fragile thing.
JOE MONTANA

You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you c...
JOE FALCON

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust -- good Christians and good Communists.
JOE SLOVO

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
JOE PATERNO

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
JOE PATERNO

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
JOE THEISMANN

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
JOE GARAGIOLA

I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they do...
JOE CARTER

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.
JOE ORTON

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
JOE DAVIS

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true profession...
JOE PATERNO

I have a fear of failure.
JOE MONTANA

Our value is the sum of our values.
JOE BATTEN

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
JOE CLARK

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
JOE GIBBS

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
JOE BATTEN

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competit...
JOE BAMFORD

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
JOE LOUIS

A ball player has got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich fami...
JOE DIMAGGIO

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
JOE MONTANA

A committee of one gets things done.
JOE RYAN

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it
JOE SIMMONS

The only things I regret... are the things I didn't do.
JOE KARBO

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
JOE ANCIS

Dream the impossible dream.
JOE DARION

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.
JOE CHUNG

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to
JOE GORES

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog...
JOE WEINSTEIN

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
JOE GORES

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integr...
JOE BIDEN

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked ...
JOE BIDEN

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wa...
JOE MARTIN

That was the age of great men, doing what was right.
JOE ABERCROMBIE

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
JOE THEISMANN

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.
JOE MANCHIN

When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going...
JOE GREEN

We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans ...
JOE LIEBERMAN

Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, ...
JOE FRAZIER

I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I...
JOE FRAZIER

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships t...
JOE TORRE

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.
JOE KLEIN

As a supporter of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their Home Run Challenge program, I am extremel...
JOE TORRE

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent...
JOE MANCHIN

The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those...
JOE NICHOLS

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and...
JOE BACA

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner...
JOE PERRY

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still ...
JOE ROGAN

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.
JOE BIDEN

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his...
JOE BIDEN

I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there...
JOE CARNAHAN

'Skins' had been a brilliant breeding ground for young actors, young directors and young wri...
JOE DEMPSIE

Today I am announcing my support for Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of Amer...
JOE ANDREW

I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and ...
JOE FRAZIER

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the H...
JOE BARTON

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our...
JOE BIDEN

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. N...
JOE BASTIANICH

I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of ...
JOE NICHOLS

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.

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Joe Namath

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

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