Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Fran Tarkenton

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Francis Asbury Tarkenton is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eighteen seasons, primarily with the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football at the University of Georgia, where he was recognized as a two-time first-team All-SEC, and was selected by the Vikings in the third round of the 1961 NFL Draft. After retiring from football, he became a media personality and computer software executive.

American - Athlete | Born: February 3, 1940

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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.

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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.

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What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

Fran Tarkenton

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

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

Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

Fran Tarkenton

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

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Television isn't my career. Business is.

Fran Tarkenton

In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

Fran Tarkenton

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

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The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

Fran Tarkenton

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

Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.

Fran Tarkenton

When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.

Fran Tarkenton

Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

Fran Tarkenton

It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.

Fran Tarkenton

If it's not fun, you are not doing it right.

Fran Tarkenton

Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.

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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

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

Fran Tarkenton

The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.

Fran Tarkenton

It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.

Fran Tarkenton

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

Fran Tarkenton

I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.

Fran Tarkenton

Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.

Fran Tarkenton

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

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.

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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

What's so wonderful about business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

Fran Tarkenton

Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Fran Tarkenton

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