He was one of the all-time greats. He was a Hall of Famer. I want to thank them for showing me the light. This is the beginning of the rest of my life, post-career, with a new team. What a team it is.
Every football team needs a quarterback, of course.
Joe Montana, simply stated, was the greatest quarterback ever to play the game. Bill Walsh, with all his brilliance, could ever have realized what we were in the midst of when we took a chance on that skinny kid from Notre Dame. It changed our lives forever. When his Pop Warner coach and his father talked him out of quitting football in the middle of a season. Realizing the first dream of his life by attending Notre Dame, where he began at the bottom of the seven-man quarterback depth chart.