Always be prepared to start.

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

I miss the game - I miss it a lot.

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

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.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.

Always be prepared to start.

Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

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.

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.

I don't live in the past.

I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.

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.

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.

If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... 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.

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.

The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.

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.

You know, I've had blowups with my coach too. The same thing happens, it just wasn't as evident back then because they didn't have so many cameras and ways to see things happen.

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.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

There's certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through. I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don't think I'd have a place to stay.

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish much. In any relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation.

It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.

Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life, so once I let that go, I've just let it all go. I have no standard of personal dignity.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.