Four-time Super Bowl champion Joe Montana believes that Dan Marino is the best quarterback to ever play football, per comments made in an exclusive interview with Keith Nelson of Men's Health.
"He had a quick release. I had to step into a lot of things to get enough [force] on the ball," Montana said about Marino. "He had the perfect torque of his upper body and strength to deliver the ball quickly at a fast release with accuracy."
Nelson clarified the difference between greatest and best in this case.
"...However, there's a difference between 'greatest' and 'best,' and Montana thinks the latter distinction doesn't belong to him," Nelson wrote.