"All my life, and most of these guys' lives, we've spent, from time to time, going from Pop Warner to a new team, to junior high school, to a new team, to a high school, on to another team." - Joe Montana
"Always be prepared to start." - Joe Montana
"And all you fans - Kansas City, San Francisco, all over the NFL, I want to thank you for your continued support." - Joe Montana
"And I always pictured being at the top of the line-up, and always being on the top. It wasn't always that easy." - Joe Montana
"At the time, my eating habits were horrendous." - Joe Montana
"Both of my boys are playing football, so I throw to them." - Joe Montana
"But it's been a joy, and they've taught me the true meaning of what the Hall of Fame is really all about. Cause it is a beginning for me, it's a beginning of a bunch of new teammates, and a tremendous, tremendous honor." - Joe Montana
"Cause as a kid, most guys want to quit the game." - Joe Montana
"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." - Joe Montana
"Confidence is a very fragile thing." - Joe Montana
"Every once in a while I play basketball with my kids, but it's halfcourt. I can't run up and down the court." - Joe Montana
"For me it was Notre Dame, and on to a new team, the San Francisco 49ers, and then on to Kansas City." - Joe Montana
"I also have a bunch of horses I do not have time for." - Joe Montana
"I also picked up my exercise program. I thought I was doing enough at three days a week, but now I aim for seven and usually get five or six in." - Joe Montana
"I ate anything that could be bad for you - fast food, burgers and fries, fried chicken, steak." - Joe Montana
"I don't know why Notre Dame... as a kid, I saw them playing on Saturdays, and again on Sundays... mind you, it was only a replay!" - Joe Montana
"I don't miss all the other stuff that went along with it - the work every day, traveling, training camps. Those responsibilities." - Joe Montana
"I had a great career here." - Joe Montana
"I had to fight back from being seventh on the depth chart." - Joe Montana
"I have four kids and I want to stick around, as do others, so I want to get the word out." - Joe Montana
"I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car." - Joe Montana
"I knew that eventually I would be replaced, but I didn't think that the time was right. I did not expect to play, I did expect to compete." - Joe Montana
"I mentioned to a couple people that in some ways I felt like, wow I'm only 44-years-old, I feel like I'm in my grave, in my coffin, alive, and they're putting, throwing dirt on me, and I can feel it, and I'm trying to get out." - Joe Montana
"I miss the excitement of the game." - Joe Montana
"I miss the game - I miss it a lot." - Joe Montana
"I played for so many years, since I was eight years old, I don't think I can go on and say that I haven't missed it." - Joe Montana
"I saw the Hall of Fame as an ending point." - Joe Montana
"I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds." - Joe Montana
"I stay active, but I can't run because of my knees." - Joe Montana
"I thank my mom and dad for always being there." - Joe Montana
"I thought I would never get hurt, but the truth is, it is not that way." - Joe Montana
"I want to start kind of where that film left off because it's kind of left everyone hanging there." - Joe Montana
"I was fortunate to have a chance." - Joe Montana
"I'm just trying to fight off the (knee) transplant for as long as I can." - Joe Montana
"I've found if you just eat in moderation, it's OK." - Joe Montana
"It was my first dream in my life, was to go to Notre Dame." - Joe Montana
"It was that thrill of the unknown, and that excitement of you don't know what the score was going to be. I enjoyed that part of it." - Joe Montana
"It's not the easiest, living with an athlete." - Joe Montana
"Like, I could eat a huge bag of potato chips before, and now I find myself not finishing a small bag and wondering if something's wrong with me." - Joe Montana
"My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best." - Joe Montana
"Notre Dame was what I grew up to want to be." - Joe Montana
"People will boo, but you have to handle yourself during a game." - Joe Montana
"Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!" - Joe Montana
"Sure, you get disappointed 'cause some teams say they will pick you, but in the end, I went to a great place and it all worked out." - Joe Montana
"The Hall of Fame is a tremendous, tremendous honor." - Joe Montana
"The worst thing is to be thrown into a game and not be prepared... And that is what happened to me." - Joe Montana
"There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass." - Joe Montana
"They wanted me to stay, and I wanted to stay, but I just wanted a chance to play." - Joe Montana
"To Ronnie Lott, whose meant to me, not only on the football field, but off the football field, what a true man's supposed to be. Ronnie spoke, and Ronnie delivered." - Joe Montana
"Very rarely do you have the same things happen to you week after week in a game." - Joe Montana
"We all started in Pop Warner." - Joe Montana
"Well, I found out I had high blood pressure about a year ago, it was kind of alarming, I was kind of in denial about it." - Joe Montana
"Well, the decision was simple; I always wanted to go to Notre Dame." - Joe Montana
"When it comes to disappointments, it was probably not going back to business school." - Joe Montana
"Yeah, I always wish I could play again." - Joe Montana
"You have a blue-collar, hard-working region that just loves sports. You get a lot of support in that area, from high school to college." - Joe Montana
"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." - Joe Montana
