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.
Interpretation
Success in football relies on teamwork rather than individual performance, despite media portrayals.
Joe Montana emphasizes that football is a team sport where the contributions of all players collectively lead to success, countering the media's tendency to focus on the quarterback as the sole hero. This underscores the importance of collaboration and unity in achieving goals within any team-oriented environment.
In practice
During a team meeting to inspire unity and collaboration among players.
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.
Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.
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.
When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.
In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.
I've often said, 'If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to pick, I would pick Kenny.' Snake was a lot cooler than I was. He was a perfect quarterback and a perfect Raider. When you think about the Raiders, you think about Ken Stabler.
Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it's tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don't want to remember the loss.
After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.
I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.
In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.
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