Fran Tarkenton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Winning means being unafraid to lose.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Success #Mean #Winning
It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Long #Want #Quitting
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 than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Success #Mean #Views
Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.
-- Fran Tarkenton
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Sports #Football #Winning
What's so wonderful about business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Thinking #Special #Wonderful
Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Numbers #People #Measurement
When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Football #Pockets #Breaking Down
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Success #Views #Want
Television isn't my career. Business is.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Careers #Television
If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Waiting #Good Times #Right Time
If it's not fun, you are not doing it right.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Fun #Motivation
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.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Motivational #Sports #Creativity
Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Nfl #Going Away #Doe
It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Sports #Cheer #People
I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.
-- Fran Tarkenton
Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Play #Quarterback
Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Athlete #Play #Over You
You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Team #Struggle #Greatness
You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Different #Information #Source
The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Athlete #Thinking #Games
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 I've read.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#New York #Book #Editors
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Greatness #America #Free Market
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 don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Leadership #Sports #Play
Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Team #Needs #Quarterback
In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Sports #Team #Winning
That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#Play #Judging #Want

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