Fran Tarkenton Quotes

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• It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.
• If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
• Winning means being unafraid to lose.
• Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success…
• What's so wonderful about business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
• I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.
• Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.
• Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want
• Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.
• If it's not fun, you are not doing it right.
• It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.
• If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
• None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you…
• Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.
• In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
• Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
• Television isn't my career. Business is.
• That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.
• The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
• The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books…

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